There is levied and imposed on all beverages of low alcoholic content handled in Louisiana an excise tax of twelve dollars and fifty cents per barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons, and at a like rate for fractional parts of a barrel.

            Amended by Acts 1974, No. 592, §1; Acts 1979, No. 442, §1, eff. July 13, 1979; Acts 1987, No. 696, §1; Acts 2016, No. 13, §1, eff. April 1, 2016.