As 2025 kicks off, several states have taken steps to eliminate or reduce their grocery taxes, continuing bipartisan efforts by lawmakers in recent months to make food more affordable to consumers.
Kansas recently completed the final step of a multi-year phasedown of its grocery tax. The state sales tax on food and food ingredients dropped from 6.5% to 4% at the start of 2023, then fell to 2% at the beginning of 2024 ahead of its elimination on Jan. 1.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she plans to end the state’s grocery tax as part of goals outlined in her state of the state address on Tuesday. Arkansas’ 0.125% grocery tax is the lowest among the states that tax groceries, according to Kiplinger…