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You love taxes, so…Beer Institute releases August 2019 domestic tax paid estimate

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You are insatiable for your tax news. I’m not sure why I continue to enable your sickness, but here we go: The Beer Institute recently published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for August 2019. The August 2019 estimate is 14,169,000 bbls, a decrease of 7.3 percent vs. August 2018 removals of 15,290,205 bbls. Please note that the estimates reflect revised estimates released by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). Now, get ready to roll around in these numbers, you sicko.

Month 2018 2019Percent ChangeVolume Change
January12,132,17412,310,000 1.5% 177,826
February11,268,87411,198,000-0.6%-70,874
March14,664,42814,347,000-2.2%-317,428
April14,126,66914,106,000-0.1%-20,669
May15,268,00215,041,000-1.5%-227,002
June16,510,92715,621,000-5.4%-889,927
July15,182,28014,800,000-2.5%-382,280
August15,290,20514,169,000-7.3%-1,121,205
YTD114,443,559111,592,000-2.5%-2,851,559