Manufacturers of Nonbeverage
Products - Records to Support Claims for Drawback, TTB REC
5530/2
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
02/22/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
02/28/2021
615
530
615
11,130
0
0
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) at 26
U.S.C.5001 imposes Federal excise tax on distilled spirits produced
or imported into the United States. The IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5111–5114
allows manufacturers of certain “nonbeverage” products—medicines,
medicinal preparations, food products, flavors, flavoring extracts,
or perfume—to claim drawback (refund) of all but $1.00 per proof
gallon of the excise tax paid on the distilled spirits contained in
or used in the production of such products. Under those IRC
authorities, TTB has issued regulations in 27 CFR part 17 governing
nonbeverage product drawback claims, which includes requirements to
keep source records supporting such claims. The required records,
which may consist of usual and customary business records, document
the distilled spirits received, taxes paid, date and quantity used,
amount of alcohol recovered, other ingredients received and used
(to validate formula compliance), quantity of intermediate products
transferred to other plants, and the disposition or purchaser of
the products. The collected information is necessary to protect the
revenue as it helps prevent payment of incorrect or fraudulent
claims and the diversion to beverage use of distilled spirits on
which respondents claim nonbeverage drawback.
There are no program changes
associated with this information collection at this time. As for
adjustments, due to a change in agency estimates, TTB is increasing
the estimated annual burden associated with this information
collection from 530 respondents and responses to 615 due to growth
in the number of nonbeverage product manufacturers subject to this
information collection requirement. However, also due to a change
in agency estimates, TTB is reducing the estimated annual
per-respondent burden for this information collection from 21 hours
to 1 hour. Specifically: (1) TTB has determined that respondents
largely meet this information collection requirement through the
keeping of usual and customary records such as purchase invoices,
production records, and sales receipts, which respondents keep
during the normal course of business, regardless of any regulatory
requirement to do so. Per the OMB regulations at 5 CFR
1320.3(b)(2), the keeping of such usual and customary records does
not place an additional burden on respondents. (2) TTB has
determined that the 21 hours of per-respondent burden previously
reported for this information collection duplicated, in part,
burden hours associated with the filing of non-beverage drawback
claims, which is approved under other OMB control numbers.
Respondents file such claims using forms TTB F 5620.8,
Claim—Alcohol and Tobacco Taxes, approved under OMB No. 1513–0030,
and form TTB F 5154.2, Supporting Data for Nonbeverage Drawback
Claims, approved under OMB No. 1513–0098. Therefore, TTB is
reducing the estimated total burden associated with this
information collection from the 11,130 hours previously reported to
a total of 615 hours.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.