07.27.2009 4:14 pm

More than half of U.S. Representatives support slashing beer taxes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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In the midst of a rough summer, the beer industry just posted a victory. Trade groups representing brewers big and small have cajoled over half of the legislators in the House of Representatives to sign…

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12.01.2008 10:35 am

Brewers push for rollback of beer tax

By Jeremiah McWilliams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Beer Institute, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group representing big brewers such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, is using the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s repeal to push for a rollback of the federal beer tax. The group calls the tax “excessively high,” arguing that…

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