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26 U.S.C. § 5215 — Return of tax determined distilled spirits to bonded premises
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**(a) General rule** Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, distilled spirits on which tax has been determined or paid may be returned to the bonded premises of a distilled spirits plant but only for destruction, denaturation, redistillation, reconditioning, or rebottling.
**(b) Applicability of chapter to distilled spirits returned to a distilled spirits plant** All provisions of this chapter applicable to distilled spirits in bond shall be applicable to distilled spirits returned to bonded premises under the provisions of this section on such return.
**(c) Return of bottled distilled spirits for relabeling and reclosing** Under such regulations as the Secretary shall prescribe, bottled distilled spirits withdrawn from bonded premises may be returned to bonded premises for relabeling or reclosing, and the tax under section 5001 shall not again be collected on such spirits.
**(d) Cross reference** For provisions relating to the abatement, credit, or refund of tax on distilled spirits returned to a distilled spirits plant under this section, see section 5008(c).
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**(a) General rule** Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, distilled spirits on which tax has been determined or paid may be returned to the bonded premises of a distilled spirits plant but only for destruction, denaturation, redistillation, reconditioning, or rebottling.
**(b) Applicability of chapter to distilled spirits returned to a distilled spirits plant** All provisions of this chapter applicable to distilled spirits in bond shall be applicable to distilled spirits returned to bonded premises under the provisions of this section on such return.
**(c) Return of bottled distilled spirits for relabeling and reclosing** Under such regulations as the Secretary shall prescribe, bottled distilled spirits withdrawn from bonded premises may be returned to bonded premises for relabeling or reclosing, and the tax under section 5001 shall not again be collected on such spirits.
**(d) Cross reference** For provisions relating to the abatement, credit, or refund of tax on distilled spirits returned to a distilled spirits plant under this section, see section 5008(c).
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**(a) Notice requirements**
(1) **Notice of manufacture of still** — The Secretary may, pursuant to regulations, require any person who manufactures any still, boiler, or other vessel to be used for the purpose of distilling, to give written notice, before the still, boiler, or other vessel is removed from the place of manufacture, setting forth by whom it is to be used, its capacity, and the time of removal from the place of manufacture.
(2) **Notice of set up of still** — The Secretary may, pursuant to regulations, require that no still, boiler, or other vessel be set up without the manufacturer of the still, boiler, or other vessel first giving written notice to the Secretary of that purpose.
**(b) Penalties, etc.**
(1) For penalty and forfeiture for failure to give notice of manufacture, or for setting up a still without first giving notice, when required by the Secretary, see sections 5615(2) and 5687.
(2) For penalty and forfeiture for failure to register still or distilling apparatus when set up, see section 5601(a)(1) and 5615(1).
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**(a) Distilled spirits lost or destroyed in bond**
(1) **Extent of loss allowance** — No tax shall be collected in respect of distilled spirits lost or destroyed while in bond, except that such tax shall be collected—
(A) *Theft* — In the case of loss by theft, unless the Secretary finds that the theft occurred without connivance, collusion, fraud, or negligence on the part of the proprietor of the distilled spirits plant, owner, consignor, consignee, bailee, or carrier, or the employees or agents of any of them;
(B) *Voluntary destruction* — In the case of voluntary destruction, unless such destruction is carried out as provided in subsection (b); and
(C) *Unexplained shortage* — In the case of an unexplained shortage of bottled distilled spirits.
(2) **Proof of loss** — In any case in which distilled spirits are lost or destroyed, whether by theft or otherwise, the Secretary may require the proprietor of the distilled spirits plant or other person liable for the tax to file a claim for relief from the tax and submit proof as to the cause of such loss. In every case where it appears that the loss was by theft, the burden shall be upon the proprietor of the distilled spirits plant or other person responsible for the distilled spirits tax to establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such loss did not occur as the result of connivance, collusion, fraud, or negligence on the part of the proprietor of the distilled spirits plant, owner, consignor, consignee, bailee, or carrier, or the employees or agents of any of them.
(3) **Refund of tax** — In any case where the tax would not be collectible by virtue of paragraph (1), but such tax has been paid, the Secretary shall refund such tax.
(4) **Limitations** — Except as provided in paragraph (5), no tax
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(1) For provisions authorizing the withdrawal of distilled spirits free of tax for use by Federal or State agencies, see sections 5214(a)(2) and 5313.
(2) For provisions authorizing the withdrawal of distilled spirits free of tax by nonprofit educational organizations, scientific universities or colleges of learning, laboratories, hospitals, blood banks, sanitariums, and charitable clinics, see section 5214(a)(3).
(3) For provisions authorizing the withdrawal of certain imported distilled spirits from customs custody without payment of tax, see section 5232.
(4) For provisions authorizing the withdrawal of denatured distilled spirits free of tax, see section 5214(a)(1).
(5) For provisions exempting from tax distilled spirits for use in production of vinegar by the vaporizing process, see section 5505(j).
(6) For provisions relating to the withdrawal of wine spirits without payment of tax for use in the production of wine, see section 5373.
(7) For provisions exempting from tax volatile fruit-flavor concentrates, see section 5511.
(8) For provisions authorizing the withdrawal of distilled spirits from bonded premises without payment of tax for export, see section 5214(a)(4).
(9) For provisions authorizing withdrawal of distilled spirits without payment of tax to customs bonded warehouses for export, see section 5214(a)(9).
(10) For provisions relating to withdrawal of distilled spirits without payment of tax as supplies for certain vessels and aircraft, see [19 U.S.C. 1309](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1309&num=0&edition=prelim).
(11) For provisions authorizing regulations for withdrawal of distilled spirits for use of United States free of tax, see section 7510.
(12) For provisions relating to withdrawal of disti
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**(a) Entry into customs bonded warehouses**
(1) **Bottled distilled spirits withdrawn from bonded premises** — Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, bottled distilled spirits may be withdrawn from bonded premises as provided in section 5214(a)(4) for transfer to customs bonded warehouses in which imported distilled spirits are permitted to be stored in bond for entry therein pending withdrawal therefrom as provided in subsection (b). For the purposes of this chapter, the withdrawal of distilled spirits from bonded premises under the provisions of this paragraph shall be treated as a withdrawal for exportation and all provisions of law applicable to distilled spirits withdrawn for exportation under the provisions of section 5214(a)(4) shall apply with respect to spirits withdrawn under this paragraph.
(2) **Bottled distilled spirits eligible for export with benefit of drawback** — Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, distilled spirits marked especially for export under the provisions of section 5062(b) may be shipped to a customs bonded warehouse in which imported distilled spirits are permitted to be stored, and entered in such warehouses pending withdrawal therefrom as provided in subsection (b), and the provisions of this chapter shall apply in respect of such distilled spirits as if such spirits were for exportation.
(3) **Time deemed exported** — For the purposes of this chapter, distilled spirits entered into a customs bonded warehouse as provided in this subsection shall be deemed exported at the time so entered.
**(b) Withdrawal from customs bonded warehouses** Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, distilled spirits entered into customs bonded warehouses under the provisions of subsection (a) may, under such regulati
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**(a) Rate of tax**
(1) **General** — There is hereby imposed on all distilled spirits produced in or imported into the United States a tax at the rate of $13.50 on each proof gallon and a proportionate tax at the like rate on all fractional parts of a proof gallon.
(2) **Products containing distilled spirits** — All products of distillation, by whatever name known, which contain distilled spirits, on which the tax imposed by law has not been paid, and any alcoholic ingredient added to such products, shall be considered and taxed as distilled spirits.
(3) **Wines containing more than 24 percent alcohol by volume** — Wines containing more than 24 percent of alcohol by volume shall be taxed as distilled spirits.
(4) **Distilled spirits withdrawn free of tax** — Any person who removes, sells, transports, or uses distilled spirits, withdrawn free of tax under section 5214(a) or section 7510, in violation of laws or regulations now or hereafter in force pertaining thereto, and all such distilled spirits shall be subject to all provisions of law relating to distilled spirits subject to tax, including those requiring payment of the tax thereon; and the person so removing, selling, transporting, or using the distilled spirits shall be required to pay such tax.
(5) **Denatured distilled spirits or articles** — Any person who produces, withdraws, sells, transports, or uses denatured distilled spirits or articles in violation of laws or regulations now or hereafter in force pertaining thereto, and all such denatured distilled spirits or articles shall be subject to all provisions of law pertaining to distilled spirits that are not denatured, including those requiring the payment of tax thereon; and the person so producing, withdrawing, selling, transporting, or using the dena
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**(a) Collection by return** The taxes on distilled spirits, wines, and beer shall be collected on the basis of a return. The Secretary shall, by regulation, prescribe the period or event for which such return shall be filed, the time for filing such return, the information to be shown in such return, and the time for payment of such tax.
**(b) Exceptions** Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), any taxes imposed on, or amounts to be paid or collected in respect of, distilled spirits, wines, and beer under—
(1) section 5001(a)(4), (5), or (6),
(2) section 5006(c) or (d),
(3) section 5041(f),
(4) section 5043(a)(3),
(5) section 5054(a)(3) or (4), or
(6) section 5505(a),
shall be immediately due and payable at the time provided by such provisions (or if no specific time for payment is provided, at the time the event referred to in such provision occurs). Such taxes and amounts shall be assessed and collected by the Secretary on the basis of the information available to him in the same manner as taxes payable by return but with respect to which no return has been filed.
**(c) Import duties** The internal revenue taxes imposed by this part shall be in addition to any import duties unless such duties are specifically designated as being in lieu of internal revenue tax.
**(d) Time for collecting tax on distilled spirits, wines, and beer**
(1) **In general** — Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, in the case of distilled spirits, wines, and beer to which this part applies (other than subsection (b) of this section) which are withdrawn under bond for deferred payment of tax, the last day for payment of such tax shall be the 14th day after the last day of the semimonthly period during which the withdrawal occurs.
(2) **Imported articles** — In t
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TITLE 26—INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
§ 5216
product described in paragraph (14) of section 5214(a) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by this sec-
tion) shall not be subject to any requirements related
to labeling or bulk sales under—
‘‘(1) section 105 or 106 of the Federal Alcohol Ad-
ministration Act (27 U.S.C. 205, 206); or
‘‘(2) section 204 of the Alcoholic Beverage Labeling
Act of 1988 (27 U.S.C. 215).’’
§ 5215. Return of tax determined distilled spirits
to bonded premises
(a) General rule
Under such regulations as the Secretary may
prescribe, distilled spirits on which tax has been
determined or paid may be returned to the bond-
ed premises of a distilled spirits plant but only
for destruction, denaturation, redistillation, re-
conditioning, or rebottling.
(b) Applicability of chapter to distilled spirits re-
turned to a distilled spirits plant
All provisions of this chapter applicable to dis-
tilled spirits in bond shall be applicable to dis-
tilled spirits returned to bonded premises under
the provisions of this section on such return.
(c) Return of bottled distilled spirits for re-
labeling and reclosing
Under such regulations as the Secretary shall
prescribe, bottled distilled spirits withdrawn
from bonded premises may be returned to bond-
ed premises for relabeling or reclosing, and the
tax under section 5001 shall not again be col-
lected on such spirits.
(d) Cross reference
For provisions relating to the abatement, credit,
or refund of tax on distilled spirits returned to a
distilled spirits plant under this section, see section
5008(c).
(Added Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1958,
72 Stat. 1364; amended Pub. L. 89–44, title VIII,
§ 805(c), June 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 161; Pub. L. 91–659,
§ 2(c), Jan. 8, 1971
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