June 30, 2008
Food tax goes to 3 percent starting Tuesday
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West Virginia's state sales tax on food is going down again.
The tax on items such as groceries will be reduced from 4 percent to 3 percent, starting Tuesday.
It's the last reduction in a process lawmakers approved in 2005, when the state food tax was 6 percent.
The final cut is expected to save West Virginia taxpayers about $25 million next year.
But managers of some grocery stores in counties that border other states say they haven't seen a sales increase since the tax has gone down.
Despite the reduction, West Virginia's food tax remains higher than neighboring Virginia's 2.5 percent. The other surrounding states -- Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania -- don't have a food tax.Advertisement - Your ad here
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