Federal wine bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
The bond the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) can require from a bonded winery or wine cellar under 27 CFR part 24, on TTB F 5510.2. It covers the federal excise tax on wine held in bond and on tax you defer. We issue it at a flat 3% — enter the penal sum TTB requires and the premium updates.
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No underwriting queue for a standard wine bond — enter your penal sum, pay, and file with the TTB. Here is the whole thing:
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Your winery details, the operations and deferral amounts TTB requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
Standard amounts issue as soon as you pay. Larger penal sums may get a quick soft-pull review, which never affects your credit score.
File with the TTB
Submit the executed bond (TTB F 5510.2) with your winery permit application or to keep an existing bond on file. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever TTB insists.
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Penal sum × 3% = your premium, one-time per term, $275 minimum. Enter the operations + deferral total TTB requires and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the wine bond actually covers
A bonded winery or wine cellar holds wine in bond — that is, before the federal excise tax has been paid. The TTB requires the proprietor to secure that tax, and a surety bond on TTB F 5510.2 is the usual way to do it under 27 CFR part 24. The bond stands behind the tax on wine on your premises and on any tax you pay on a deferred basis.
The penal sum is split into two parts on the form: an operations amount (covering wine in bond) and a deferral amount (covering tax you defer to a later return). The two should add up to the total bond amount shown at the top of your application — enter whichever figures TTB requires.
An important caveat: since January 1, 2017, the PATH Act amendment at 26 U.S.C. 5551(d) exempts proprietors who reasonably expect to owe no more than $50,000 in alcohol excise tax for the year (and owed no more than that the prior year) from the bond requirement. Many small wineries no longer need a bond at all — if TTB has asked you for one, or your situation falls outside that exemption, we issue it at a flat 3%.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Enter the operations and deferral amounts TTB requires — the executed wine bond is generated on payment, ready to file with the TTB.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter the penal sum TTB requires and file the same day.