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A person with income from selling a Schedule I substance is allowed to take a tax deduction for the cost of goods sold but not any other tax deductions. [19] [21] Unlike for other business activities, tax deductions are not allowed for ordinary and necessary business expenses such as rent, utilities, and advertising. [22]
Third, alcohol excise taxes are often advocated as user fees and tax revenues may be ear-marked for public programs addressing harms from alcohol or other health concerns. [107] However, as tax revenues are fungible there is nothing in place to ensure that individual benefits are commensurate with costs, which violates the benefit principle of ...
Income tax withholding; payment of employment taxes 4001–5000: Excise taxes on specific goods, transactions, and industries 5001–5891: Alcohol, tobacco and firearms taxes and special excise tax rules 6001–6167: Tax returns: requirements, procedural rules, payments, settlements, extensions 6201–6533
The states already overregulate alcohol. There's no need for a federal layer of red tape.
Section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC 61, 26 U.S.C. § 61) defines "gross income," the starting point for determining which items of income are taxable for federal income tax purposes in the United States.
The alcohol tax reform proposal would have shifted collection by making taxes a percentage of a drink a consumer pays for based on alcohol type — spirits at 4%, wine at 3% and beer at 2%.
For example, a town might levy an alcohol tax of $1 for every drink sold. It wouldn't matter whether you sold a cheap beer or an expensive glass of wine. The tax would remain the same.
Generally, any statute that imposes a tax denominated explicitly as an "excise" in the United States is an excise tax law. U.S. federal statutory excises are (or have been) imposed under Subtitle D ("miscellaneous excise taxes") and Subtitle E ("Alcohol, Tobacco, and Certain Other Excise Taxes") of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 4001 ...