VirginiaSales and use tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption & essential personal hygiene.
What it does
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill.
More detail
Under current law, such products are exempt from state sales and use tax but are subject to the standard local rate of one percent.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2024
- Nov 18Left in FinanceLatest
- Feb 7Continued to 2025 in Finance (Voice Vote)
- Feb 6Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
- Feb 2Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2Minor
- Jan 17Impact statement from TAX (HB540)
- Jan 9Referred to Committee on FinanceMinor
- Jan 9Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101582DIntroduced