Food sales tax

@DorkySupergirl Said

They tax food where I live. I went to the store yesterday to pick up a few items and I am looking at my receipt, they charge tax on most of the food I bought.

It appears, where I live, if you buy 1 liter of milk, its personal use so you pay tax. But if you buy 2 liter or more of milk, its for a family so no tax.

Those bastards, they even charged me 10 cent deposit on each of my bottles of water, then tax on my water, bastards.

I think maybe its more acceptable to tax non essential food items like chips, candy etc but leave the essentials alone like stuff for salads, meat etc. We want people to eat healthy but its already expensive and then add tax to it, its silly to pay tax on essential food items.

And why the heck should I as a single woman have to pay extra taxes because I want a smaller box of soy milk. That's not fair.

@someone_else Said

That is even more convoluted than just taxing it all.

Our state just recently started taxing junk food and bottled water. Maybe...I remember voting last time to vote it back out because they misclassified so many things. For example, an organic granola bar was taxed as candy, but some actual candy bars weren't.

That weird new law aside, we were only taxed on prepared food before.

@DorkySupergirl Said

Most of my channels are American and I think it was last year or year prior,they were running ads for voting on bill such and such to put a tax on junk food. They had a woman who made organic snack foods asking the public not to vote yes because her goods were be taxed and some actual candy bars would not be so her products would be avoided and would hurt her business. I remember thinking how odd it was that organic snacks could ever be deemed junk food.

Here, if I buy carrots and celery in a package, I do not think there is a tax on that but if I buy them prewashed, cut for me and in the little package to keep them fresh, that is taxable. My lettuce is taxable because I buy the precut and prewashed stuff so its easier for my daily lunch salads.

I think that is foolish as its not take out or a premade meal, its just vegetables.

@someone_else Said

Yep, that's the commercial I remember too. That lady iirc was from my area. Somehow, I thought you lived on the East side of Canada and that was a Washington commercial.

I couldn't remember if deli sandwiches and stuff like the little veggie tray were taxable. If they were, it was because it was "prepared". I remember having problems with some sandwiches because of their labels. The store I worked at sold panini's and you could get them either toasted or untoasted. The people using Food Stamps could not use them to buy prepared food, so they would have to buy the untoasted panini (which was in the fridge part and already wrapped) and have the sandwich counter person toast it for them.

@someone_else Said



It turns out that most states don't (31) and all but 2 others provide lower taxes (lower than on other things in their own state), rebates or credits.

@DorkySupergirl Said

To take a moment to explain, most of my channels are American like CBS, NBC, ABC etc, they are from all over America. Plus, with HD channels and time shifting, I have access to watch say NBC from either Boston or Seattle, whatever one I prefer. I can choose from a pretty good selection of major American cities to watch their local news as well.

The food stamp thing confuses me. We don't have that here or anything like that. So they can buy lettuce but probably not the cut up lettuce as its considered taxble and premade.

@boobagins Said


Here in FL, I know that they don't tax produce (fresh veggies) but do tax other food items like cookies and ice creams.

@DiscordTiger Said

Our groceries not being taxed is only a few years old.
When they reduced the tax on groceries, they raised the tax on everything else. Prepared foods, like in the deli counter part of the grocery, or restaurants are still taxed

They wanted to reinstate it for some things again, (not essential items like (milk, eggs, flour, etc.) however tortillas ended up on the list that would be taxed, (its prepared) so it ended up known as the tortilla tax, It didn't pass.

The state needs the money though.

@boobagins Said

How is milk not a necessity. Where are we supposed to get our calcium from? Pills?

Surely, cheese would need to be taxed, but not milk.

And what about our babies, they need milk (outside of formula)

@boobagins Said

How is milk not a necessity. Where are we supposed to get our calcium from? Pills?

Surely, cheese would need to be taxed, but not milk.

And what about our babies, they need milk (outside of formula)