![]() Kentucky Distillers’ Association President Eric Gregory noted the compromise bill creates a new excise tax to help fund school districts. I know there are, right now, probably some difficult feelings," Beshear said in a news conference. ![]() At the same time, you've got communities that have helped build that industry. You had an industry that supports so many jobs and calls Kentucky home. Andy Beshear, who signed the bill after passage by Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature, said several industry compromises were vital to his support, while the bill will encourage investment. A destructive and unsightly black fungus which feeds on ethanol emitted by whiskey barrels has been found growing on property near the distillery's barrelhouses. Visitors walk to the Jack Daniels Distillery visitor center Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Lynchburg, Tenn. “Where you have an alcohol-based plant that produces a hazardous material, you need emergency management, EMS, a sheriff’s department,” he said. The county will still have to provide them with services, protect them and protect the surrounding community from them if anything goes wrong, Summers said. Once the barrel tax sunsets in 2043, the distillers will pay no taxes at all to Bullitt on some warehouses. “Our industry was always a handshake agreement,” Summers said. When the state legislature voted to phase it out earlier this year, after intense lobbying by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, county officials felt betrayed. The counties supported the property tax breaks because they expected to continue collecting the barrel tax. Many of the new barrelhouses are being built with industrial revenue bonds exempting them from property taxes for years or decades. Visitors walk away from the Jack Daniels Distillery visitor center carrying boxes of whiskey Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Lynchburg, Tenn. The majority goes to schools but the money also is used for services that support the county’s Jim Beam and Four Roses plants, including a full-time fire department. “We’ve been their biggest advocates and they threw us under the bus,” said Jerry Summers, a former executive with Jim Beam and the judge-executive for Bullitt County, essentially the county mayor.īullitt County has long depended on an annual barrel tax on aging whiskey, which brought in $3.8 million in 2021, Summers said. She inspires our family daily with her efforts to make a difference in the world, one action at a time.By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. I know the scale of the challenge often gets her down and she's embarrassed to be nominated, but the kids and I are very proud of all she does. Since getting back to the UK, she continues to get out rain or shine and clean up the towpath along our local canal, works for the local energy co-operative, volunteers at the secondhand uniform shop (to keep clothes out of landfill), and campaigns for Greenbelt Matters. She started an EcoFestival in the States which supports 50 local sustainable businesses (and now co-project manages this from the UK) to raise funds for eco-related youth projects. She's the driving force behind our #just1bag2020 campaign that inspired 4,000 people around the world to pick up 60,000 bags of litter and is now using the momentum from this to get schools and local community groups involved. ![]() It was lovely to hear that my wife, Sarah, has been shortlisted for The Green Award in the BBC Make a Difference Awards. ![]()
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