Beer Institute releases domestic tax paid estimate

The Beer Institute represents the whole of the $223 billion American beer industry (an industry that includes more than 2,700 breweries and 1.8 million jobs). The Beer Institute’s members include everyone from America’s largest brewers to some of the country’s smallest craft brands. The organization is a great source of statistics, and in late January, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid by beer brewers.

The December 2013 domestic tax paid estimate is 13,150,000 barrels (bbls). December 2012 removals were 13,050,000 bbls (revised) for an increase of 0.8 percent. Please note the following monthly revisions from previous releases for 2012 and 2013:

Month                          2012                        2013             Percent Change        Volume Change
January                  13,341,173               13,700,000                    2.7%                        358,827
February                13,750,782               12,900,000                   -6.2%                       -850,782
March                    15,650,416                14,792,000                    -5.5%                      -858,416
April                       14,903,136                15,060,000                    1.1%                        156,864
May                        16,916,518                16,320,000                    -3.5%                      -596,518
June                       17,029,525                 16,600,000                    -2.5%                     -429,525
July                        16,464,805                 16,200,000                    -1.6%                      -264,805
August                   16,554,238                 16,140,000                    -2.5%                     -414,238
September             14,826,690                 15,190,000                     2.5%                      363,310
October                  14,300,000                 14,200,000                    -0.7%                     -100,000
November             13,500,000                 13,450,000                    -0.4%                      -50,000
December              13,050,000                13,150,000                      0.8%                      100,000
YTD                      180,303,411               177,782,000                   -1.4%                   -2,521,411