No, that's exactly wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise. "An excise, or excise tax, is any duty on manufactured good

No, that's exactly wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise. "An excise, or excise tax, is any duty on manufactured goods that is normally levied at the moment of manufacture for internal consumption rather than at sale." I'm very familiar with how the excise tax on alcohol works, it's definitely a tax on creation not consumption.