do u have to pay taxes on food??

We do not pay taxes on food or medicine here in Texas. We DO pay sales tax on sodas and candy.

Hi Jo, In my country everything has a tax that is 19% over the price. But the price that is shown has already that tax incorporated to what you pay. There are some 5 stars hotels where they will take away the 19% of tax if you prove that you are from another country. I do some shopping at two or three supermarkets I have near my house, but I´m acostumed to go to the same one and know where everything is. I believe that the best way for me to save on groceries is to go with a list and stick to the list. The two biggest supermarkets nearby are always fighting with each other for the costumers so they usually have to normal food at decent prices. They make up with the imported things they have. Some crazy people have enough money to pay in September over $20 for an imported watermelon when you can wait until December and get a giant one for $1 or a little bit more. I enclose a picture of the super 4 or 5 blocks away from my house.

Not on food only thing we pay on is non food products. adn our tax is 8% boy TEnn went all out of food taxes didnt they? yup I would drive the 10 miles sometimes do that here just to get good prices but then the valley is about 20 miles wide!

Hi fellow Tennessean. I would drive but it's more than a half hour drive to get over the Kentucky border for me. I can hit Gallatin's stores as I pass through each day so the gas savings makes up for the tax savings.

Hi, ANTIQUELADY. Where we live at we do have to pay taxes on our foods. But, I don't pay any taxes being that I have an EBT card. Being on Food stamps allows me to not have to pay any taxes.. I don't know if I would drive ten miles to keep from paying any taxes. If the drive is amount 20 minutes, I may do so. If not, I don't think that I will. I may go once in a blue moon if I had to.

I would drive that far to save. HOwever we are tax exempt due to my husband being a disabled veteran which is good. In MT you don't pay taxes untill it comes to your car tags then it costs you more. I hope any veterans or farmers are reading this cuz they too can save by applying at the Dept. of Revenue where they live or veterans can a letter of disablity to take or send to their dept. of revenue. It's important to save all you can in these uncertain days.

I also have a EBT card, food stamps, as both me and my hubby are disabled, so there are no taxes on groceries as long as you can eat it. But a few of our stores here in Ohio, Krogers, Cubs, Wal-Mart has started giving you a card, certain items in the store are worth points towards cents off on gasoline. At one point when gas was $ bucks a gallon I only had to pay like a $1.03 a gallon for it with the card after buying groceries. For instance brownie mix, which my husband loves brownies, was a dollar a box, plus had 8 cents on each box that went on the card, so I bought 5 boxes and that was 40 cents off a gallion right there. So as we shop even though we are spending we are saving in another way and we all have to have gas to run our cars. I don't think groceries should be taxed, but the government is going to get their no matter where it comes from.

I only see government tax added on the restaurant bills. We pay heavily when we eat in restaurants or cafes. First we pay for the food we ordered and next come the service charge and then the government tax. No tax is added on the bills when we shop for groceries. I don't know whether there is hidden tax there and pre added to the prices as many items here are pricey. But certain items like rice and sugar are government subsidized and there prices remain stable.

Although my state is often known as Taxachusetts, we do not have to pay sales tax on food or clothing. I believe that taxes on essential goods like food, clothing, shelter, are just unconscionable. Already many residents of this state travel over the border to the neighboring state that has no sales tax on anything whatsoever. I can't imagine how many more would make the trip, no matter how far, if they began to tax food. I would definitely drive 10 miles, and not just to save the money the tax cost me, but also as a protest and to keep my grocery budget money out of the hands of greedy politicians. Everyone who can should shop out of state and send a message to the state house that taxing food is reprehensible. Think of how many food items some poor families must cut from the list in order to cover paying the tax? Shame on those politicians, burdening American families with taxes on the commodity most essential to life.

I would not pay taxes on food. I cannot believe that you have to, ugh. Yes I would drive 10 miles to buy food, and that probably means I would shop only twice a week instead of every other day lol.

Yes i do live in Asian country and we have to pay tax 4-8 percent of total cost to government.It isnt a pleasurable thing when prices has already shoot up sky high.but there is no way out too.Taxes are same everywhere otherwise i would have travel to save my money definitely.

95% of what you buy here is taxed with 19% other things are taxed with 6% VAT ( or BTW as we call it)

I think that's too cost of living if we're obligated to pay for our food. Hope our higher officials would consider this. Food is very vital for our survival. I hope they'll put this in consideration.

Everything and anything have taxes in my country except those on the sidewalks because they did not issue receipts. They give 20% discount to the oldies to any food chain outlets but as I saw in the receipt they only enjoying 8% discount because of the 12% value added tax.

SSSSHHHH! Don't tell NY State that. We have tax on everything except groceries. Some things we have double or even triple tax on. We have to drive 8 or 25 miles to a grocery store anyway. So 10 is not much. Our tax rate is 8%. I thought we had the highest. 9.75, almost 10 percent. That is amazing.

You know I do Jo. I have often considered going to Kentucky because it is about 45 minutes away from me. There are a lot of people that I know that make a once a month trip there to get groceries.

Yeah i have to pay taxes on food in my country, Indonesia. The tax rate is 10 %.

Here in my country we pay taxes for everything we buy. Government officials are even talking about increasing our taxes. It wouldn't bother me much if I see that the ordinary citizens really benefit from the taxes, but I'm so mad because these government officials just steal our money. They keep on saying that they need to increase taxes so that we could pay our debts, but I think this is not a solution at all. The real solution is for these selfish politicians to stop stealing our money so that we could have enough money to pay our debts. They've already increased our taxes many times, but we still haven't paid our debts.

Yes here in Colorado we have to pay taxes on food. I travel about 8 miles to buy my food I still have to pay taxes but Walmart Groceries are cheaper than the Grocery Store in the town I live in. I do though buy some at the Family Dollar and Dollar General in my town which are cheaper than Walmart.

Hmmm. If I'm going to buy a lot of food, then maybe I would, or I can compute first extra gas expense = food tax savings. Anyway, here in our country, foods here have taxes. Though, well, it something like, those foods that are staple, like rice, vegetables and meat, I think they are exempt from taxes, but the rest, and the cooked foods would have a 12% tax.. I hope I remember my tax right.