Avoid common compliance pitfalls in reporting to the TTB. It has happened to you: You see it as the return address on a letter, or write it down as you’re checking your voicemail—and your lips start to tremble, a small drop of sweat forms on your forehead: Those words you dare not utter out loud—Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. You envision hiding your face from the TV cameras, and what might happen to you in federal prison (yes, the kind they talk about in the movie “Office Space”). Next, you think you feel a tingling in your left arm, and things are getting blurry.… OK—breathe.