Despite the popularity of bubbly beverages, the carbonation tax–colloquially called the ‘bubble tax’–on fruit wine, fruit cider, and fruit mead makes carbonating these agricultural products at sparkling levels cost prohibitive. Most craft beverage entrepreneurs can’t afford to carbonate these products at the level the market wants. The result is that an important American agricultural sector is falling flat.
Sign on to support the Bubble Bill and allow cider, mead and wine producers to compete more fairly in the evolving beverage market. The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act achieved this for grape-only wines, but fruit-based cider, wine, and mead were overlooked. This created an excise tax disparity of $2-$3 a gallon depending on the product.
Allowing more carbonation will foster more economic opportunities for craft beverage makers, allow for more small producer collaborations, create increased opportunities for farms to stay viable with value-added products, and allow for diversification that could help farms and businesses mitigate disasters such as fires, droughts, floods, or crop disease.
Please ask your Congressional representatives to sign onto the Bubble Bill today to support American craft beverage producers and manufacturers.
Despite the popularity of bubbly beverages, the carbonation tax–colloquially called the ‘bubble tax’–on fruit wine, fruit cider, and fruit mead makes carbonating these agricultural products at sparkling levels cost prohibitive. Most craft beverage entrepreneurs can’t afford to carbonate these products at the level the market wants. The result is that an important American agricultural sector is falling flat.
Sign on to support the Bubble Bill and allow cider, mead and wine producers to compete more fairly in the evolving beverage market. The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act achieved this for grape-only wines, but fruit-based cider, wine, and mead were overlooked. This created an excise tax disparity of $2-$3 a gallon depending on the product.
Allowing more carbonation will foster more economic opportunities for craft beverage makers, allow for more small producer collaborations, create increased opportunities for farms to stay viable with value-added products, and allow for diversification that could help farms and businesses mitigate disasters such as fires, droughts, floods, or crop disease.
Please ask your Congressional representatives to sign onto the Bubble Bill today to support American craft beverage producers and manufacturers.