Lawmakers to vote on ending Alabama's grocery tax

Some Alabama lawmakers are again trying to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries. In Alabama, shoppers pay a minimum of four percent grocery tax put into effect by the state in 1939. The tax affects items shoppers buy at grocery stores across the state.
 

Alabama is one of just three states to tax groceries at the state’s normal sales tax rate. The other two are Mississippi and South Dakota. The state’s 4% sales tax on groceries generates nearly $500 million every year which goes to the education trust fund budget.

House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels said he believes the money lost for the fund from the tax could be made up in other areas.