As time runs out on this year’s Kentucky General Assembly, one bill still in flux would repeal a longstanding state tax on spirits aged in barrels. That effort has pitted a group representing the Kentucky bourbon industry against many local officials who say the revenue generated by the tax is too important to give away.
More than 25 counties in the commonwealth stand to lose millions of dollars in revenue that goes toward libraries, schools, and emergency services from property taxes generated by the bourbon barrel tax.