Refund of Alcohol Excise Tax

Status: In force. The effective date has passed and nothing here records a change to that.

From the published effective date. Nothing here records a court changing it.

• Document number: 2024-04711
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: March 6, 2024
• Effective: March 6, 2024
• Agency: Homeland Security Department; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Treasury Department

Official abstract

This document adopts as a final rule, with no changes, interim amendments to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations that were published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2022, as CBP Decision 22-26. Pursuant to these changes, the responsibility for administering refunds, reduced tax rates, and tax credits on imported alcohol moved from CBP to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, on January 1, 2023.

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