Increasing alcohol taxes.

 H-2046.2

HOUSE BILL 2079

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Davis and Fitzgibbon

Read first time 04/16/25. Referred to Committee on Finance.

AN ACT Relating to increasing alcohol taxes; amending RCW 66.24.210 , 66.24.290 , and 82.02.030 ; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 66.24.210 and 2023 c 470 s 1012 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) There is hereby imposed upon all wines except cider sold to wine distributors within the state a tax at the rate of twenty and one-fourth cents per liter. Any domestic winery or certificate of approval holder acting as a distributor of its own production must pay taxes imposed by this section. There is hereby imposed on all cider sold to wine distributors within the state a tax at the rate of three and fifty-nine one-hundredths cents per liter. However, wine sold or shipped in bulk from one winery to another winery is not subject to such tax.