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The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (Virginia ABC, or previously known as the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control) is one of the eleven public safety agencies under the Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth. The agency administers the state's ABC laws (created by the General Assembly).
Vermont – Liquor stores are state-contracted and licensed. [26] Virginia – All distilled spirits are sold at state-run Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control locations, commonly known as Virginia ABC stores. Virginia has ten "moist" counties that prohibit the sale of distilled spirits and thus do not have any ABC stores. Beer and wine are sold ...
No alcohol cap but ABV > 15.5% requires additional license, so many places are beer/wine only. Wet/dry issues determined by city/county election. Liquor stores statewide closed all day Sunday and on specified holidays (on those holidays which fall on a Sunday, the stores must be closed the following Monday).
Tariff of 1791 or Excise Whiskey Tax of 1791 was a United States statute establishing a taxation ... Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ... University of Virginia.
Virginia also has a tax on alcohol of 11.5%. Virginia's use tax also applies at the same rate for out of state purchases (food and hygiene items 1%, non-food 5.3% to 7%) exceeding $100 per year "from mail order catalogs". [207]
The states already overregulate alcohol. There's no need for a federal layer of red tape.
Alcohol tax is an excise tax, and while a sin tax or demerit tax, is a significant source of revenue for governments. The U.S. government collected $5.8 billion in 2009. [46] In history, the Whiskey Rebellion was caused by the introduction of an alcohol tax to fund the newly formed U.S. federal government.
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