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New Mexico Political Report
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New liquor taxes could come in 2025 as a means to lower alcohol-related deaths

A possible bill for the upcoming legislative session would seek to curb New Mexico’s consistently high alcohol-related death rate by raising liquor taxes. The proposal would impose surtaxes on spirits, beer and wine, and place the funds in a newly created Alcohol Harms Alleviation Fund. An effort to impose a surtax on alcohol failed during […]