Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2003-2008

摘要

On November 25, 2002 President Bush signed into law the Homeland Security Act of 2002. One provision of this act divided the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) into two new agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which moved to the Department of Justice, and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) which remains in the Department of the Treasury. The two agencies split on January 24, 2003. ATF itself was one of the youngest bureaus in Treasury, dating back to only 1972. But its mission and predecessor agencies date back to the creation of the Treasury Department and the first Federal taxes being levied on distilled spirits in 1791. As ATF did before it, TTB will administer and enforce the Federal laws and implementing regulations related to the production and taxation of alcohol and tobacco products, as well as the statutes that impose Federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition. This is the TTB's Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2003 - 2008.