A grocery tax was NOT intended for our state budget
September 17, 2019Grocery tax? That wasn’t the intent of our state budget!
We were successful in encouraging the Lamont Administration to rethink the state Department of Revenue Services’ (DRS) policy that unilaterally expanded the sales tax. Governor Lamont has asked DRS and OPM to better align DRS’s interpretation with the intent of our state budget.
Yesterday, I joined Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz and House Majority Leader Matt Ritter in expressing my displeasure with DRS interpretation of the sales tax to Commissioner Scott Jackson.
Read our full letter to the Commissioner here.