Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), statutorily named the Tax and Trade Bureau, is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. TTB regulates and collects federal excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition. The bureau enforces Federal laws and regulations related to alcohol and tobacco products, issues permits for producers, importers, and wholesalers, approves label applications for alcohol beverages, and provides open data on tax collections, permit holders, and approved product labels. TTB administers approximately $20 billion in annual federal excise tax collections from the alcohol and tobacco industries.
APIs
TTB Open Data API
The TTB Open Data API provides programmatic access to TTB statistical and regulatory datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Available datasets include alcohol beverage t...
TTB COLA Registry
The TTB Public COLA (Certificate of Label Approval) Registry provides access to approved alcohol beverage labels. Users and industry members can search for approved labels by pr...
TTB Permits Online
TTB Permits Online is the electronic portal for applying for and managing federal basic permits, brewer's notices, distilled spirits plant permits, and tobacco permits. The syst...
Features
Annual and monthly federal excise tax collections broken down by alcohol and tobacco commodity type and by state.
Public searchable database of all approved Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) records for wine, spirits, and malt beverages.
Open data on federal basic permit holders including producers, importers, wholesalers, and retailers of alcohol beverages.
TTB datasets are published on the Socrata platform, accessible via the standard Socrata Open Data API (SODA) with JSON and CSV output.
Annual statistical reports on alcohol and tobacco tax collections, industry production volumes, and commodity statistics.
Electronic Freedom of Information Act (eFOIA) request submission and tracking for TTB records not available through open data.
Use Cases
Producers, importers, and retailers use TTB permit and label data to verify compliance status and competitive market intelligence.
Policy researchers and economists analyze TTB excise tax collection data to study alcohol and tobacco market trends.
Alcohol beverage companies track COLA approval status and research competitor label approvals in the public registry.
Industry analysts use production volume statistics and permit holder counts to assess market size and industry structure.
Public health researchers use TTB consumption proxy data (tax collection volumes) to study alcohol consumption patterns.
Journalists and public interest groups use TTB open data and FOIA to investigate regulatory compliance and enforcement actions.
Integrations
TTB datasets are accessible through api.data.gov, the government-wide API management platform hosted by GSA.
TTB open datasets are cataloged on data.gov, the federal open data portal managed by GSA.
TTB uses the Socrata platform (data.ttb.gov) to publish and provide API access to regulatory datasets.
TTB coordinates with the Internal Revenue Service on excise tax administration and data sharing.
TTB coordinates with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on alcohol and tobacco import regulation and taxation.
TTB works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on shared jurisdiction over alcohol and tobacco regulation.