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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Alcoholic Beverage Tax Regulations

Title 18. Public Revenues
Division 2. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration — Business Taxes (State Board of Equalization — Business Taxes — See Chapters 6 and 9.9)
Chapter 6. Alcoholic Beverage Tax

Article 5. Losses and Allowances

Regulation 2554


Regulation 2554. Consumption of Beer on Brewery Premises.

Reference: Sections 32171 and 32172, Revenue and Taxation Code.

All beer consumed on a brewery's premises shall be accounted for.

(a) Except as provided in Subdivision (b), tax shall be paid on all beer consumed by brewery employees, visitors and others in a brewery tavern. Beer manufactured by the brewery for consumption in a brewery tavern, and which is placed in a storage tank designed for this purpose, shall be subject to tax at the time it is placed in the storage tank. For purposes of this Regulation, a "tavern" means a federally approved portion of the brewery premises where beer is sold to consumers.

(b) Beer consumed by brewery employees, visitors and others is not subject to tax if consumed without charge within the brewery's bonded premises and not in a brewery tavern.

History—Adopted December 9, 1998, effective March 31, 1999.