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AJC.com > Legislature > Blog > Archives > 2009 > March > 10 > Entry
DEL.ICIO.USGrocery tax hike 99 percent dead’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, that didn’t take long
Just a few days after the House Ways & Means Committee passed a bill to put the state sales tax back on groceries, a House source said the measure isn’t likely to get to the House floor for a vote.
The AJC reported Tuesday that House leaders said they were planning to put the bill up for a vote Thursday.
But once the idea hit the media, Republican blogs exploded in opposition to the idea of putting the state’s 4 percent sales tax back on groceries. It was removed by a Democrat-run General Assembly in the mid-to-late 1990s. Read the whole post here: http://blogs.ajc.com/gold-dome-live/2009/03/10/grocery-tax-hike-99-percent-dead/
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By JMT
March 12, 2009 2:20 PM | Link to this
How much $ does business rake in from out-of-state grocery shoppers plus the amt of revenue the stores get from GA residents near the borders of other states? Bet it is more than $250M py.
I do not know if any states that border GA have a grocery tax or not but let me tell you this…I live near the border of WV where there is a food tax…my state does NOT have a food tax & as a result there are TONS of cars in my state grocery store lots w/ WV plates (& there are very, very few WV ppl that report that under the “use tax” regs in WV). WV not long ago reduced, NOT eliminated, the food tax amt YET I have NOT seen a reduction in the # of WV cars over here shopping.