Useful mechanism for bonded warehousing; verify all dates, rates, and legal provisions against primary revenue statutes and Treasury records.
Veach connects aging incentives, tax timing, enforcement mechanics, corruption, and later regulation.
Civil War excise rates rose rapidly, and postwar bonding delayed taxation until gauging after warehouse storage. Disputed allowance tables, higher rates, and collusion between distillers and gaugers culminated in the 1875 Whiskey Ring scandal; new dual locks, pipe controls, and grain-to-yield records followed.
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Chapter Five — Taxation and Regulation
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Civil War excise rates rose rapidly, and postwar bonding delayed taxation until gauging after warehouse storage. Disputed allowance tables, higher rates, and collusion between distillers and gaugers culminated in the 1875 Whiskey Ring scandal; new dual locks, pipe controls, and grain-to-yield records followed.
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Source section: Chapter Five — Taxation and Regulation
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Veach connects aging incentives, tax timing, enforcement mechanics, corruption, and later regulation.
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Useful mechanism for bonded warehousing; verify all dates, rates, and legal provisions against primary revenue statutes and Treasury records.
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