Alabama grocery tax task force

September starts this Sunday. One difference Alabama shoppers will see is no extra cut in the State’s sales tax on groceries. The Department of Revenue in Montgomery says the tax on food will stay at three percent starting September first.

An Alabama nonprofit has unveiled an agenda calling for policy changes in the state. Alabama Arise works to improve the lives of Alabamians who are marginalized by poverty. The organization’s 2024 Roadmap for Change contains seven legislative changes that its policy workers will focus on next year.

Alabama families are paying slightly less at the grocery store after a 1% reduction in the state sales tax on food took effect this month. State lawmakers in June approved legislation to gradually remove half of the 4% state sales tax on food, capping decades of fruitless attempts at such a tax cut.

Governor Robert Bentley has created a task force that will investigate removing the 4-percent sales tax from groceries. The governor signed an executive…