4th Quarter - Amendment

SUNTORY GLOBAL SPIRITS, INC. (FORMERLY BEAM SUNTORY INC.) for SUNTORY GLOBAL SPIRITS, INC. (FORMERLY BEAM SUNTORY INC.)

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$430,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

Versions of this report

Every filing the register holds for this firm, client and period, oldest first. The most recent one is the version LegiList counts.

Filing Filed Amount Counted
4th Quarter - Report Jan 23, 2017 $375,000 Replaced
4th Quarter - Amendment (this page) Feb 28, 2017 $430,000 Yes

What was lobbied

3 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Agriculture AGR

Provisions involving animal feed manufacturing in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (PL 111-353), and reasserting an exemption for spirits from such provisions, as included in aforementioned law.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax credit for energy efficiency improvements to existing homes contained in PL 112-240, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, and new credit for water efficiency; modify the requirements for windows, doors and skylights to be eligible for the non-business energy property credit; issues focusing on territory use of rum cover over revenues; legislation to limit U.S. territories use of economic development incentives; retaining rum program contained in PL 112-240; comprehensive tax reform; support for H.R. 2520, the Distillery Innovation and Excise Tax Reform Act of 2015, a rollback in the Federal Excise Tax on distilled spirits and the revision of capitalized interest rules for aged spirits.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 2520 (114th)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Tax credit for energy efficiency improvements to existing homes contained in PL 112-240, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, and new credit for water efficiency; tax credits for improvements to existing homes; rebates to consumers who install energy efficient products in their homes; national standard to be implemented on pipes and plumbing fixtures.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.