HB 540 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Sales and use tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption & essential personal hygiene.

Summary
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill. Under current law, such products are exempt from state sales and use tax but are subject to the standard local rate of one percent.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Nov 18, 2024
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Committee
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Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
lower
Feb 2, 2024
Committee
Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Joe McNamara
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