Every single Alabama state senator co-sponsored a new grocery tax bill.
I’m going to vote for it. I’m a co-sponsor on the one for Andrew Jones, but only because the lieutenant governor asked me for my support himself,” said Senator Merika Coleman, D-Jefferson County.
“I was the 35th. If you look at the list, I was the last one they approached,” said Senator Arthur Orr, R-Limestone County. With a $2.7-billion surplus in the Education Trust Fund, Senator Andrew Jones, R-Cherokee County, says hisThe bill lowers the 4% state sales tax to 2% by taking off half a percent each year.
“There has to be 2% positive growth in the education budget for us to take the grocery tax down by half a cent,” said Jones.Jones’ bill does not directly replace the money to the ETF.Coleman filed a grocery tax bill that decreases state deductions allowed on the federal income tax and uses the revenue to replace the lost funds.Coleman and Jone’s grocery tax bill applies to food defined by the“Alabama families pay about $600 a year in the grocery tax alone, and so this will help offset that,” said Akiesha Anderson with Alabama Arise.was referred to the Senate Finance and Taxation Education committee for a vote as early as next week.
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