0001|                            HOUSE BILL 343
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             EDDIE CORLEY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO TAXATION; REDUCING THE LIQUOR EXCISE TAX ON BEER
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0012|     MANUFACTURED OR PRODUCED BY A MICROBREWER AND SOLD IN NEW
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0013|     MEXICO.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 7-17-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993,
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0017|     Chapter 65, Section 8, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "7-17-5.  IMPOSITION AND RATE OF LIQUOR EXCISE TAX.--
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0019|     There is imposed on any wholesaler who sells alcoholic
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0020|     beverages on which the tax imposed by this section has not
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0021|     been paid an excise tax, to be referred to as the "liquor
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0022|     excise tax", at the following rates on alcoholic beverages
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0023|     sold:
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0024|               A.  on spirituous liquors, one dollar sixty cents
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0025|     ($1.60) per liter;
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0001|               B.  on beer, except as provided in Subsection E of
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0002|     this section, forty-one cents ($.41) per gallon;
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0003|               C.  on wine, except as provided in Subsections D
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0004|     and F of this section, forty-five cents ($.45) per liter;
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0005|               D.  on fortified wine, one dollar fifty cents
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0006|     ($1.50) per liter;
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0007|               E.  on beer manufactured or produced by a
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0008|     microbrewer and sold in this state, provided that proof is
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0009|     furnished to the department that the beer was manufactured or
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0010|     produced by a microbrewer <s>[twenty-five cents ($.25)]</s> <u>eight
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<u></u>0011| <u>    cents ($.08)</u> per gallon<u></u>;
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0012|               F.  on wine manufactured or produced by a small
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0013|     winer or winegrower and sold in this state, provided that
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0014|     proof is furnished to the department that the wine was
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0015|     manufactured or produced by a small winer or winegrower, ten
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0016|     cents ($.10) per liter on the first eighty thousand liters
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0017|     sold and twenty cents ($.20) per liter on all liters sold over
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0018|     eighty thousand liters but less than three hundred seventy-
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0019|     five thousand liters; and
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0020|               G.  on cider, forty-one cents ($.41) per gallon."
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0021|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0022|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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