# Is the tax on beer and wine a lot less than spirits?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-tax-on-beer-and-wine-a-lot-less-than-spirits/78391>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-tax-on-beer-and-wine-a-lot-less-than-spirits/78391 "2001-08-27T20:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ski\_the\_Soo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Ski\_the\_Soo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ski_the_Soo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-tax-on-beer-and-wine-a-lot-less-than-spirits/78391/1 "2001-08-27T20:19:35Z")

</div>

Is the tax on beer and wine a lot less than spirits?

What’s the ratio?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-tax-on-beer-and-wine-a-lot-less-than-spirits/78391/2 "2001-08-27T22:27:11Z")

</div>

I plugged “alcohol tax” into google and came up with this site:

[http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/beer.html](http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/beer.html)

[http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/liquor.html](http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/liquor.html)

[http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/wine.html](http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/wine.html)

These are the state rates. I didn’t look for federal excise taxes, but the short answer to your question is “yes”.