WINERY COMPLIANCE IN ONTARIO AND B.C.
UNDERSTANDING THE FEDERAL EXCISE ACT 2001 COMPLIANCE REGIME
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Ontario and British Columbia (“B.C.”) are leading wine-producing provinces with well-established statutory frameworks governing how wineries may produce, market, and sell wine. Those provincial rules, however, are only part of the compliance picture. Wineries in Ontario and B.C. are also subject to the Federal Excise Act, 2001 (“EA 2001”), which imposes a separate compliance regime for licensing, reporting, removals, and recordkeeping.