Sales taxes imposed by state governments vary from state to state not only in rate, but also in what is subject to the tax. Many states (but not all) exclude food for home consumption from sales tax. However, foods purchased in restaurants and prepared foods are often not exempt from sales tax. Consequently, the restaurant must collect sales tax from the patrons.
It depends on where you are. Some states don't have any sales tax at all, and others tax different things and all define things differently....some things you may consider food, (or things you don't consider food), the laws in a particular area will define to be different than you think. Also, almost all areas, even if they exempt most food...don't exempt a meal....and when food becomes a meal is sometimes hard to figure out....in a Grocery for example buying lettuce and tomatoes at the produce department may be exempt as food, but from the salad bar there it is a meal! That said...why not tax food? The purpose of the tax is to raise the funds to run society. If it isn't raised by a sales tax, it is done through another tax....income., property, excise, etc....or perhaps by having a higher sales tax rate on all the other things.
Food is taxed to go because that is a decision made by your legislature in the state or under the government where you live. In some places taxes are a local decision, in others a state decision, and in others a national decision. It depends on politics.
Depending on where you live most food is exempt from tax. However there may be exemptions, such as candy and chocolate, alcoholic drinks, soda, dietary foods and health supplements, heated or ready made foods amongst others.
It depends on where you are. In Missouri, a sales tax is charged on all food. In New Hampshire, prepared food is one of the few things on which there is a tax (there's no sales tax on food at the grocery store, but at a restaurant you pay a "hospitality tax" on your meal). In Massachusetts, there's a sales tax on most things, but unprepared food (i.e. from a grocery store) is one of the few exceptions.
All food prepared or not is not exempt from tax,depending on what state you are in
Rhode Island, Arizona, and Michigan are three states that do not have a sales tax on food. Nebraska, California, and Minnesota have no sales tax on food.
4.75 percent.
what foods arte taxed in Washington state
indirect tax
no it does not
no
All food that is for immediate consumption
There is No tax in Rhode Island on Food and medicine.Ref: http://www.tax.state.ri.us/help/grocery.php
one good reason to not have tax on food is that food is part of survival, and if we have to pay more to live then that's unfair
The tax is: 2.21