The Brewers Association and the Beer Institute issued a joint statement this afternoon in support of a new bill that would restructure the federal excise tax rate on beer, creating a unified front to take on an issue that has for years divided the beer industry's two leading advocacy groups.
The bipartisan Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act – filed by Reps. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) and Ron Kind (D-WI) – is actually a companion bill of the same name filed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in the Senate earlier this month.