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This is a trick right?. Many of these states that they say have no grocery sales tax actually have a local tax on groceries. North Carolina for example has no statewide tax but has a uniform 2% local grocery tax.
Grocery is also loose. I'm in GA, anything processed has normal taxes. Produce and other ingredients has "lower" taxes because the statewide default doesn't apply. But it's still like 3% or in my area.
Shouldn't the yellow just be grey? If the tax was eliminated, and the grey states have no tax, isn't that the same thing today?
Basically yellow is grey, and the blue ones will soon be grey.
Ahhh Missouri, where they are getting rid of income tax but force regressive sales tax on poor people.
Illinois is just getting rid of the State tax, but many of the towns/counties are bringing it back anyway.
Only place it makes sense is Hawaii because it's all shipped in and there's not enough land to supply local stuff to everybody.
What is grey, then?
I believe those never had a sales tax on groceries, at least at the state level.
I can see taxing finished goods (hamburger helper) but not raw goods (apples, carrots). Is this the case in some of these states?
This is more or less how it works in Texas. Or at least the last time I paid attention to it I’d did. Potatoes are not taxed but chips are.
Yeah, kind of. I live in Minnesota and here raw ingredients, and essential food items are untaxed. Prepared foods, candy, soda and anything "non-essential" are taxed normally.
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