Excise taxes on beer, wine and spirits in Colorado are some of the lowest in the U.S. But Colorado also taxes alcohol at a significantly lower rate than other “sin” products despite spi…
Colorado’s state liquor advisory group meets to vote on recommend changes to alcohol laws on Oct. 30, 2023, in Lakewood.
Increasing the price of alcohol is particularly effective in deterring young drinkers, in the same way higher cigarette prices disproportionately turn youth away from smoking, with smaller effects on older users, said Dr. Bill Burman, former director of the Public Health Institute at Denver Health. But so-called sin taxes also send a message about risk, he said, and some studies found people cut their consumption after a state announced a tax hike but before it even took effect.
Coloradans drink more than the average American, with each person over 14 consuming about 645 standard drinks per year, compared to about 536 nationwide,. The state had the ninth-highest rate in the country of people who reported binge drinking, heavy drinking or both. Raising taxes on only some alcohol products doesn’t appear to reduce consumption, though. When Illinois doubled the taxes on wine and spirits in 2009, a study found,States and the federal government go decades without changing alcohol taxes, so economists don’t have as much direct data about how people will respond as they do about other tax questions.
While the 8 cents Colorado charges for every gallon of beer brewed was significant at some point, it now is essentially a rounding error in the price of a six-pack now, Cook said. In the last four years, the average price of a case of 24 standard-sized beers in Colorado has increased from aboutAdvertisements for alcoholic beverages at a liquor store are seen along East Colfax Avenue in Denver on Jan. 3, 2024. Colorado voters increased tobacco taxes in 2004, 2016 and 2020.
A lobbyist who previously worked with the alcohol industry said lawmakers find it challenging to take any steps that would increase the cost of business for liquor stores and other small businesses that sell alcohol. She spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about potential professional retaliation.
In the fiscal year that ended in June, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment spent about $19.5 million on programs to discourage the use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. The department couldn’t say how much of that funding went to alcohol prevention, though it did point to a $171,000 program focused on. But even if all of the $19.
While checking whether businesses are selling to minors is the most widely known part of the job, the officers also investigate if manufacturers are following sanitary procedures when they bottle drinks, whether distributors are paying their taxes and if bars are committing other crimes, like selling illicit drugs or facilitating prostitution, Stone-Principato said.
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