Feds Getting More Aggressive with Small Brewer Taxes

The federal Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is starting to become more proactive about what it perceives are possible tax abuses on the legal practice of "alternating proprietorships" at small and medium sized breweries.As you likely know, brewers who produce under 2 million barrels of beer annually only pay $7 per barrel on the first 60,000 barrels produced, as apposed to large brewers who pay $18 per barrel. It adds up to a lot of savings ($660,000 a year per