Charting RTD Tax Cut Scorecards

Dear Client: Brewers Association general counsel Marc Sorini covered Spirits’ concerted legislative push to snag “equivalency” wins – efforts to confer beer channel/tax benefits to spirits -- across the country during his Craft Brewers Conference legislative update last week.   Securing tax cuts and or wider distribution of RTD products is a top priority of major distilleries, represented by DISCUS. Pertinent bills to that end aim for a few things: tax cuts for liquor RTDs; removing liquor RTD products out from