Alabama families could soon pay less at the grocery store after lawmakers Thursday voted to remove half of the 4% state sales tax on food.
Lawmakers are aiming to give final approval to the bill on Thursday.
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation to remove half of the state’s 4% sale tax on groceries.
Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to remove half of the state’s 4% sale tax on food, a proposal that has received bipartisan support.
Every member of the Alabama Senate is supporting legislation to cut the state sales tax on groceries by half.
Alabama lawmakers are considering removing, or phasing out, the state’s 4% sales tax on food.
There appears to be growing support to repeal the state’s grocery tax.
A local lawmaker is pushing to repeal the state’s four percent grocery tax. Money from the tax is used to fund the state’s education. But if the repeal passes, that could mean more money in your pocket. The big question is how that money would be replaced. Lawmakers have tried for years to repeal the grocery tax, but have not…
In his state of the state address, the Governor Robert Bentley said he wants to get rid of the state food tax. That’s been something that democrats have pushed for years. But Governor Bentley said the first step is to create a task force to look into exactly what that would do. Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh was caught…
