You are viewing the archives of the old northcoastoregon.com. Please visit the new North Coast Oregon at: http://www.northcoastoregon.com/

Articles listed under the tag: Beer tax

"Malt Beverage Cost Recovery Fee"

by Tryan Hartill

Yep…..you read it right. It’s not a beer tax but a “Recovery Fee” for beer sold in Oregon. OK…..

Some of the highlights:

  • Imposes a $32 per barrel tax on beer.
  • Takes Oregon from 45th in beer taxes to 1st.
  • Only applies when the producer makes over 125,000 barrels per year.
  • Full Sail and Deshutes each make over 150,000.
  • Tax will adjust for inflation.
  • Will cost a “dime a drink”... drink beer and pay 10 cents for the tax.
  • Most likely will violate the Commerce Clause because of the 125,000 cut-off.

Where The Money Goes

The money raised will be about $80 million per year and with inflation adjustments will rise about 3% per year. Around 40% will go to the State for Alcohol and Drug programs and policing. The remaining 60% will go to local taxing entities in 7.7% increments. Some to cities, some to counties, some for drug abuse, some for housing and so on.

Now I am not totally against a beer tax, it has been very low because Oregon was a “Producer State” when Henry’s was pumping out large amounts of beer. And probably needs to be raised to pay for some of the drain it puts on State programs.

But the size and scope of this tax is absolute insanity. Most of this tax is going to be used for things that have nothing to do with beer. Drugs and Drug Court? Mental Health? Why should a beer drinker have to pay for all this?

Saturday February 24, 2007 | Full Article | Comments [6]

About Us

North Coast Oregon is a community information and discussion website for North Coast web users. This is the archive of our old site. Please visit our new site at:
http://www.northcoastoregon.com

NCO Reader Comments


cnabas (New Tillamook and Clatsop County Blog)
pasgettaorri (The Vote 2006!)
pasgettaorri (The Vote 2006!)
connie (Focus on 49: BOCC work session grapples with difficult legislature)
Delores (Focus on 49: BOCC work session grapples with difficult legislature)
Kristen Molina (North Coast AA Round Up Seaside April 4th 5th 6th 2008)
Madonna Carr (What does the Federal Government Do with our Taxes?)
Wallace Kennedy (More D.A. Talk)
Ollie Woodward (Fort George Brewery Coming Alive)
Augustine Sweet (CCFOG - First report on Lee recall petition signatures)
Glynn Oconnor (A gun show ... without guns ?)
Lorne Riley (notes from Clean Slate PAC meeting 2/13/07)
Clare Ruiz (Durban Group Discusses Carbon Trading and LNG in Astoria)
Stewart Hernandez (Random News For Friday)
Johnna Acosta (Measure 50....Healthy Kids...Cigarette Taxes)
Nathan Schroeder (Housing Credit Crunch: Who to Blame?)
Tammi Chase (Hands of Peace held for MLK Jr Day)
Maxine Richardson (News Sidebar)
Maryann Le (Websites...How to do links...Textpattern, HTML, Subscribe)
Daniel Estrada (Warrenton City Manager Resigns)

Recent Articles

View All Articles...

Archives

Feeds



Home | Archives | Contribute | Back to Top
Take What You Want 2008 NorthCoastOregon.com unless otherwise indicated.
Please email us with any questions or comments.
Site created by Upspring Design.