[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR24.52]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 24--WINE--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C--Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 24.52  Exemption from special (occupational) tax.

    (a) General. The proprietor of a bonded wine premises or a taxpaid 
wine bottling house will not be required to pay special (occupational) 
tax as a wholesale dealer or retail dealer on account of the sale, at 
the bonded wine premises or the taxpaid wine bottling house, or at the 
principal business office as designated in writing to the appropriate 
ATF officer, of wine which, at the time of sale, is stored at the bonded 
wine premises or taxpaid wine bottling house, or has been removed from 
the bonded wine premises to a taxpaid wine premises, the operations of 
which are integrated with the operations of the bonded wine premises and 
which is adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of the bonded wine 
premises. The proprietor may not have more than one place of sale, as to 
each bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine bottling house, that will be 
exempt from special (occupational) tax under this section.
    (b) Place of exemption. Unless the proprietor has claimed the 
exemption elsewhere, it will be presumed that the exemption is claimed 
at the bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine bottling house where the 
wine or spirits are stored. If exemption from payment of special 
(occupational) tax is to be claimed for sales at the principal business 
office rather than for sales at the bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine 
bottling house, the proprietor shall state such intention in the 
approved application or file a notice in letter form of this intention 
with the appropriate ATF officer. Where the exemption is claimed for a 
place other than the bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine bottling 
house, the special (occupational) tax will be paid for any sales made at 
the bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine bottling house.
    (c) Exception. Where the proprietor of a bonded wine premises or a 
taxpaid wine bottling house has not paid special (occupational) tax as a 
wholesale dealer and consummates sales of wine to another dealer at the 
purchaser's place of business through a delivery route sales personnel 
or otherwise, the proprietor of the bonded wine premises or taxpaid wine 
bottling house shall be

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required to pay special (occupational) tax as a wholesale dealer.
    (d) Wholesaler's special (occupational) tax. A wholesale dealer in 
liquors who has paid the appropriate special (occupational) tax as 
provided in part 194 of this chapter will not again be required to pay 
special (occupational) tax as a wholesale dealer because of sales of 
wine to wholesale or retail dealers in liquors, or to limited retail 
dealers, at the purchaser's place of business. (Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-
859, 72 Stat. 1340, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5111, 5113, 5142))

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control numbers 
1512-0472 and 1512-0492)

[T.D. ATF-299, 55 FR 24989, June 19, 1990, as amended by T.D. ATF-409, 
64 FR 13683, 13684, Mar. 22, 1999]