« Environment - "Michigan will again ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its arguments on Asian carp" | Main | Courts - Yet more on: Lobbyist linked to Abramoff quits Indianapolis firm [Updated] »
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Law - "New York State's wine shipment law praised"
From the Rochester NY Democrat & Chronicle, a long story by Cara Matthews -- some quotes:
ALBANY — A 2005 law allowing New York wineries to ship directly to out-of-state customers and wineries in other states to do the same with New York consumers has led to millions of dollars a year in tax revenue for state government.Here is a long list of earlier ILB entries dealing with wine shipping.Before 2005, individual customers in New York could get shipments from in-state wineries but not from out of state, according to state Liquor Authority Chairman Dennis Rosen, who spoke at a public hearing Tuesday on the impact of the law.
Six years later, more than 800 wineries from 15 states are registered with New York and can ship to New York consumers. Thirty-eight states allow some form of direct shipment, Rosen said.
The Liquor Authority has collected $431,375 in permit fees from wineries in the 15 states. Wineries that shipped directly reported $54 million in sales to New York consumers between March 2009 and February 2010, which yielded about $4.5 million in sales taxes, he said.
New York adopted a direct shipping law after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New York and Michigan had laws that unconstitutionally discriminated against wineries in other states. * * *
Rosen said that New York has turned down agreements with several states - Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kansas -- because their laws were ”insufficiently accommodating to New York wineries.” Maryland originally was turned down because it didn’t allow shipments from New York wineries, but it has since adopted a reciprocity law and ships to New York customers, he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 26, 2011 01:55 PM
Posted to General Law Related