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Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Collect the Revenue Program

The Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau collects alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition excise taxes that is rightfully due by eliminating or preventing tax evasion and providing high quality service to its customers while imposing the least regulatory burden.

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PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Collect the Revenue program has a clear purpose and is well designed to achieve its goals. TTB administers and ensures compliance with portions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with collection of excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and ammunitions and regulation of those manufacturers.
  • The program has developed adequate long-term performance measures with ambitious targets and timeframes. TTB measures the percent of voluntary compliance in filing tax payments and will increase this target from 82% in 2004 to 92% in 2010.
  • The program has not developed adequate baselines for its annual performance measures. Three out of the four annual measures do not have baselines.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing targets and baselines for new performance measures.
  • Simplifying tax forms in order to reduce taxpayer burden.
  • Collaborating with other state and federal agencies to increase education outreach to regulated taxpayers, in order to increase voluntary compliance in filing tax payments.

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