TN alcoholic beverages tax bonds.
$750 flat to start.
A Tennessee alcoholic beverage wholesaler beginning business files an initial $75,000 gallonage-tax bond with the Department of Revenue under Tenn. Code Ann. § 57-3-303. Ours is $750 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The Department resets the amount after your first four months.
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Three steps to wholesaling.
Your wholesaler account is waiting on this bond. Here is the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, your FEIN, the county where the business sits, and an effective date. The only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with the Department of Revenue
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your wholesaler application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Tennessee taxes alcoholic beverages by the gallon, and a wholesaler collects and remits that tax to the Department of Revenue. The bond guarantees proper payment of all state taxes, penalty, and interest connected with wholesaling and distributing alcoholic beverages — it stands behind the tax you owe before it is settled.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Tennessee (the obligee). If a wholesaler fails to remit the gallonage tax it owes, the state can recover against the bond — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
A new wholesaler files an initial $75,000 bond for the first four months. After that period, the Department resets the bond to not less than 110% of your average tax liability for those four months, for the rest of the year. We re-issue at the new amount at the same $750 flat price whenever the Department adjusts it.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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Other Tennessee bonds.
The Department of Revenue is waiting on one document.
$750 flat to start, short application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.