
Now that you are spending more time at home, perhaps this is your best opportunity to find posts about beer taxes interesting. Let’s test your muster: The Beer Institute recently published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for February 2020. The February 2020 estimate is 11,350,000 barrels or bbls, a decrease of -0.7 percent vs. February 2019 removals of 11,431,000 bbls. More revealing will be the March 2020 domestic tax paid estimate, which is scheduled to be released on April 21.
| Domestic Tax Paid – TTB | ||||
| (31 Gallon Barrels) | ||||
| Month | 2019 | 2020 | Percent Change | Volume Change |
| January | 12,398,000 | 12,325,000 | -0.6% | -73,000 |
| February | 11,431,000 | 11,350,000 | -0.7% | -81,000 |
| YTD | 23,829,000 | 23,675,000 | -0.6% | -154,000 |