Tennessee 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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How much does a Tennessee alcoholic beverages tax bond cost?
$750 at the $75,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
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.
Approved
Most are approved as soon as you apply. One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score. If it needs a second look, one to two business days at most.
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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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $75,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
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 sets the price
The premium is fixed at $750 at the $75,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
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 issued when you pay.
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$750 flat to start, short application, bond issued when you pay. Free until issued.