How do you determine the sales tax for food when you are grocery shopping?

Question

Trying to budget the weekly grocery bill. Is it all the same or does different foods have a different tax? What about things like tolietries? I live in Tx. if that helps any. Thanks!

Answer 1

For every 50 Cents its .3Cents for tax so ever $ its 6 cents

Answer 2

I'm not sure how Texas works for this sort of thing. I live in Wyoming and there is no sales tax on any food item. Things like toiletries tax is 5% in my county. I do not use credit cards so I have to stay within a budget when I shop because I only have cash. I also round up on everything I buy. If an item is $1.45 I round up to two dollars even on food items that have no tax. If I brought $100.00 to the store once my rounding reaches that I no I need to checkout. It always works I never come up short and stay withing the budget I have to work with. Good Luck budgets are hard to work with.

Answer 3

Many States have just as many taxing requirements. I live in Arkansas and they are changing it from the 7% to 3% and then doing away with it all together. Then there are "prepared" foods, which will still have taxes on them. This covers stuff like TV dinners. I liked Ohio better, where food was not taxed. Even fast food was not taxed if you got it "to go".

Answer 4

Foods are not supposed to be taxed. Toiletries are taxed since they are not a food item. Also, candy is taxed. It depends on the tax rate in your area. But when I'm grocery shopping, I don't take that into account and neither does anyone else I know.

Answer 5

I live in KS, and they have state and local taxes on food. (horrendous)...together they come to 7.525% where I live.

I didn't realize that TX charged sales tax on groceries. I thought they were one place that taxed hardly anything. Call your state dept of revenue and ask what your state, city, and local tax is, or just look at an old receipt to see how much % they charged.