You know that whole battle between distributors of wine and wineries? That one that has the wineries wanting to be able to ship and sell their wine direct to customers while the distributors don't want any direct sales to happen?...

... in addition to shipping direct-to-consumers. Georgia: Wineries shipping direct-to-consumers ... the state. The Special Order Direct Shipping License in GA does not trigger a sales tax requirement...

Juanita Duggan, the soon to be former President of the Wine Spirit Wholesalers Association, is leaving her post with a party shot: A new survey, commissioned by her group of anti-consumer wholesalers, that suggests fully 2% of 14 to 20...

I wish I was a lawyer sometimes because I'll often read something concerning a lawsuit and just not understand the intent of it. Take a recently filed suit in Oklahoma. In 2000 OK voters approved a new law that allowed...

Reading through a news article describing the two State and Federal court battles over direct shipping of wine to consumers in Arkansas, I cam across a statement that gave me pause: U. S. District Judge Wright has ruled that Arkansas...

There are some interesting takes in the Blogosphere over today's announcement from the Wine Spirit Wholesalers of America that a survey shows the world is about to end because 2% of those answering said survey announced they had bought wine...

There are those of you out there who follow the wrangling, legal and otherwise, in the battle across the country over direct shipment of wine to consumers. The legal issues are pretty arcane. But for those who do take an...

There is a temptation to believe that politics is corrupt, period. There's even good reason to believe that one lobbyist and one lobbying organization is just like the other. They do their darnedest to pay for results. It's just not...

A few weeks ago, Annie mentioned that wineries shipping directly to Georgia that do not otherwise ... the following The simple answer to your question is that the Special Order Shipping License ... that these licencees must collect and pay Georgia sales tax on sales. Whether a Special Order Shipping ... for further clarification on whether the Special Order Shipping License creates a nexus in Georgia...

... choice in wine. We focus exclusively on this issue, that is, the domestic direct shipping of wine from ... . And this cooperative approach has been extremely successful. In 1998 there were 17 legal shipping states, now there are 32. Wineries now have the option of shipping directly to consumers in states ... burdens on shipping. And because wine retailers can ship to, at most, consumers in just 12 states...