What's Happening?:
A bill in the state legislature, HB1255, takes the state's 4% off food. It maintains state revenue by adjusting the rate on non-food by 3/10%. It leaves the tax on pop & candy. If your non-food sales-taxable spending is less than about 12 times your groceries, you come out ahead.
It's something helpful the state can do in this hunger time.
NEWS, in case you missed it: Arkansas cut food tax down another
notch recently, down to 2%. See Other States in the More Info section.
| 1. | People are really struggling for food. Some wait in food lines for hours. Yet South Dakota is one of the few states continuing to tax groceries. "No other tax so directly takes food off people's tables." |
| 2. | The refund system does not meet the need. For the dismal news, click on Refund Program in the list on the left. |
| 3. | South Dakota could end this unfair tax, as most other states have done. |
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Every year the money families pay in food tax
would their cover meals for 3 weeks.
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