Iowa Code 123.143 – Distribution of funds — barrel tax fund created
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The revenues obtained from permit fees and the barrel tax collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be distributed as follows:
1. All permit fees collected by the department under this subchapter shall accrue to the beer and liquor control fund, except as otherwise provided. All taxes collected by the department under this subchapter shall accrue to the state general fund, except as otherwise provided.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 123.143
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Beer: means any liquid capable of being used for beverage purposes made by the fermentation of an infusion in potable water of barley, malt, and hops, with or without unmalted grains or decorticated and degerminated grains or made by the fermentation of or by distillation of the fermented products of fruit, fruit extracts, or other agricultural products, containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume but not more than six and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume. See Iowa Code 123.3
- Brewpub: means a commercial establishment authorized to sell beer at retail for consumption on or off the premises that is operated by a person who holds a class "C" or special class "C" retail alcohol license and who also holds a special class "A" beer permit that authorizes the holder to manufacture and sell beer pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 123.3
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 123.3
- Native brewery: means a business which manufactures beer or high alcoholic content beer and is operated by a person who holds a class "A" beer permit that authorizes the holder to manufacture and sell beer pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 123.3
- premises: means all rooms, enclosures, contiguous areas, or places susceptible of precise description satisfactory to the director where alcoholic beverages, wine, or beer is sold or consumed under authority of a retail alcohol license, wine permit, or beer permit. See Iowa Code 123.3
- State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
2. Barrel tax revenues collected on beer manufactured in this state from a class “A” beer permittee which owns and operates a native brewery shall be credited to the barrel tax fund hereby created in the office of the treasurer of state. In addition, barrel tax revenues collected on beer manufactured in this state from a special class “A” beer permittee which owns and operates a brewpub that is sold at retail at the manufacturing premises pursuant to section 123.130, subsection 4, shall be credited to the barrel tax fund. Moneys deposited in the barrel tax fund shall not revert to the general fund of the state without a specific appropriation by the general assembly. Moneys in the barrel tax fund are appropriated to the economic development authority for purposes of section 15E.117.