An effort to allow cities and counties to decide if they can reduce or eliminate their sales tax on groceries was stopped Wednesday in an Alabama House committee.
Instead, state Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, will have to press to have HB42 approved as a local legislative matter.
England’s proposal surfaced upon a request from the city of Tuscaloosa, which is advocating to have their municipal sales tax on groceries removed, only later to learn that state law prevented them from doing so.
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