{"id":53485,"date":"2017-05-25T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-deceptive-craft-beverage-modernization-and-tax-reform-act-of-2017-is-a-321-million-federal-gift-to-big-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:30:40","slug":"la-enganosa-ley-de-reforma-tributaria-y-modernizacion-de-bebidas-artesanales-de-2017-es-un-regalo-de-321-millones-del-gobierno-federal-a-las-grandes-companias-de-la-industria-del-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-enganosa-ley-de-reforma-tributaria-y-modernizacion-de-bebidas-artesanales-de-2017-es-un-regalo-de-321-millones-del-gobierno-federal-a-las-grandes-companias-de-la-industria-del-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2017 is a $321 Million Federal Gift to Big Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN RAFAEL, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 25, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Alcohol Justice<\/b><\/a> released a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/reports\/reports-full\/CraftBevImpact.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>new report<\/b><\/a> today that shows that the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform act of 2017 (CBMTRA) &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-bill\/236\/related-bills\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>S.236 \/ H.R. 747<\/b><\/a> &#8211; is deceptive and will benefit Big Alcohol at taxpayer expense. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg3ffbleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg3ffbleft\" title=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>&#8220;This dishonest federal measure is being portrayed as an incentive for small craft brewers,&#8221;<\/i> stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Bruce Lee Livingston<\/span>, Executive Director \/ CEO of Alcohol Justice. <i>&#8220;But the real winners are the largest beer and spirits producers in a race to cut their already ridiculously low tax rates.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/reports\/reports-full\/CraftBevImpact.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Alcohol Justice report<\/b><\/a><b>,<\/b> if signed into law, the measure would result in:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>At least <span class=\"xn-money\">$321 million dollars<\/span> in lost excise tax revenue\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-money\">$177 million dollars<\/span> to the distilled spirits industry\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-money\">$50 million<\/span> to Big Alcohol &#8220;craft&#8221; brewers producing over 2 million barrels annually. Tax giveaways strongly favor huge brewers\u00a0 (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50 million<\/span> to 37 breweries producing 2\u00ad\u20116 million barrels, versus <span class=\"xn-money\">$76 million<\/span> to 4,910 brewers producing &lt; 2 million barrels)\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-money\">$18 million<\/span> lost in an evisceration of tax incentives meant to promote lower-ABV wine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/reports\/reports-full\/CraftBevImpact.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>report<\/b><\/a>\u00a0notes that federal alcohol excise taxes have not been raised since 1991, and that this failure to maintain a responsible level of taxation with an inflation index not only costs the government up to <span class=\"xn-money\">$7 billion<\/span> per year, it also strips away an effective means to control alcohol use through price increases. Researchers estimate that doubling the federal excise tax would result in a 35% decrease in alcohol-related mortality, an 11% reduction in deaths from automobile crashes, and measurable drops in sexually transmitted infections, violence, and crime. CBMTRA Big Alcohol tax cuts will instead increase all alcohol-related harms.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, increasing alcohol excise taxes can be used to directly ease and offset the estimated <span class=\"xn-money\">$249 billion<\/span> in U.S. annual costs from excess drinking including 88,000 deaths, alcohol-related car crashes, violence, chronic illness, and lost productivity. Lost revenue from CBMTRA tax cuts represent lost opportunities to promote health and safety of alcohol drinkers and could pay 70% of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) annual budget, or 57% of the Veterans Administration expenditures on substance abuse treatment.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;In light of the persistent failure of the federal government to proactively address alcohol harms, the CBMTRA would be a poor choice in any year,&#8221;<\/i> added Livingston. <i>&#8220;We encourage the public to <\/i><b><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/take-action\/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f52146%2frespond\" rel=\"nofollow\">TAKE ACTION<\/a><\/i><\/b><i> and tell their leaders in <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, D.C.<\/span> to stop subsidizing Big Alcohol and VOTE NO on the deceptive measure.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Visit the Alcohol Justice <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/tax-calculator?view=alcoholtax\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Alcohol Tax Calculator<\/b><\/a>\u00a0at AlcoholJustice.org for more information on increasing federal and state revenue from raising alcohol taxes.<\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT: <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Scippa<\/span> 415 548-0492\u00a0<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Jorge Castillo<\/span> 213 840-3336<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Alcohol Justice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN RAFAEL, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 25, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Alcohol Justice<\/b><\/a> released a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/reports\/reports-full\/CraftBevImpact.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>new report<\/b><\/a> today that shows that the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform act of 2017 (CBMTRA) &#8211; &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-bill\/236\/related-bills&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}