---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 5675"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "5675"
heading: "Penalty for intentional removal or defacement of brewer’s marks and brands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/5675"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Alcohol, Tobacco, and Certain Other Excise Taxes"
  - "Chapter 51 — Distilled Spirits, Wines, and Beer"
  - "Subchapter J — Penalties, Seizures, and Forfeitures Relating to Liquors"
  - "Part III — Penalty, Seizure, and Forfeiture Provisions Applicable to Beer and Brewing"
---

# §5675. Penalty for intentional removal or defacement of brewer’s marks and brands


Every person other than the owner, or his agent authorized so to do, who intentionally removes or defaces any mark, brand, or label required by [section 5412](/usc/26/5412.md) and regulations issued pursuant thereto shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for each barrel or other [container](/usc/26/5002.md?p=a-12) from which such mark, brand, or label is so removed or defaced.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1408.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5675, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 696, consisted of provisions similar to those comprising this section, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859.