Duties & Functions

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

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The Homeland Security Act of 2002 divided the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into two new agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which will move to the Department of Justice, and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), which will remain in the Department of the Treasury. This division was effective January 24, 2003.

The newly created TTB will, as ATF did before it, administer and enforce the existing Federal laws and tax code provisions related to the production and taxation of alcohol and tobacco products. These taxes amount to approximately $15 billion in excise taxes including $100 million in occupational tax on the manufacture of firearms and ammunition