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Bubble Tax Modernization Act of 2025
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove the differentiation between mead and low alcohol by volume wine for purposes of the tax imposed on wines.
Summary
This bill would amend the tax code to change how mead and low-alcohol wine are taxed. The bill defines low alcohol by volume wine as wine containing less than 8.5 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 0.64 grams of carbon dioxide per 100 milliliters. These wines would be treated as still wines for federal tax purposes, removing the previous differentiation between mead and low-alcohol wine. The changes would apply to wines removed after December 31, 2025.
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Sponsor (1)
9 cosponsors
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR)
- Rep. Edwards, Chuck [R-NC-11] (R-NC)
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA)
- Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4] (D-OR)
- Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16] (R-PA)
- Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19] (D-CA)
- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME)
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY)
- Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] (R-WI)
Actions (2)
- Jul 22, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
- Jul 22, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 22, 2025
Ms. Salinas (for herself, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Panetta, and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove the differentiation between mead and low alcohol by volume wine for purposes of the tax imposed on wines.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Bubble Tax Modernization Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. REMOVING DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN MEAD AND LOW ALCOHOL BY VOLUME WINE.
(a) In General.—Section 5041(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
“(h) Low Alcohol by Volume Wine.—
“(1) In general.—For purposes of subsections (a) and
(b)(1), low alcohol by volume wine shall be deemed to be still wines containing not more than 16 percent of alcohol by volume.
“(2) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘low alcohol by volume wine’ means a wine—
“(A) containing not more than 0.64 gram of carbon dioxide per hundred milliliters of wine, except that the Secretary may by regulations prescribe such tolerances to this limitation as may be reasonably necessary in good commercial practice, and
“(B) which contains less than 8.5 percent alcohol by volume.”.
(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to wine removed after December 31, 2025. <all>
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