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Legislation · Virginia · 2025

SB 1172: RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.

Summary

Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is currently applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.

Latest recorded action

Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)

Jan 23, 2025

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