According to the latest budget analyses from the Legislature, New Mexico policymakers have nearly $900 million in “new” money available as the session begins in Santa Fe. This comes on top of ...

New Mexico’s alcohol industry is raising a glass to a proposed liquor tax hike — because it’s so slight, most drinkers won’t even feel it. A multi-year effort to meaningfully raise alcohol ...

What would have been the first increase to the state’s alcohol excise tax in 30 years died Friday, a victim of a disagreement ...

The way that consumers pay taxes on alcohol in Washington is more than a decade old and modern consumer preferences mean that some consumers are punished with higher taxes depending on which ...

Before Prohibition, many states relied heavily on excise taxes in liquor sales to fund their budgets. In New York, almost 75% of the state's revenue was derived from liquor taxes. With Prohibition ...

Sanchez convened a work group with the alcohol industry last year; the group did not agree on a tax hike. But on March 25, at Sanchez’s request, legislative lawyers crafted an amendment to House ...