SPRINGFIELD (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Future trips to the grocery store could be a little cheaper, as Governor Pritzker shops the idea of getting rid of the state sales tax on groceries.
In his budget address to lawmakers in Springfield, the governor called the one percent tax on groceries “regressive” and said it should be permanently eliminated.
“Even though inflation continues to cool off, folks are still feeling the squeeze every week at the grocery store….There’s one more thing that we ought to do. For the good of our state’s working families, let’s permanently eliminate the grocery tax,” Pritzker said.
The state halted the grocery tax starting in the summer of 2022 in the midst of the pandemic economic downturn, but it resumed last July.
The Democrat is asking lawmakers to remove Illinois from the list of roughly one dozen states to tax grocery sales.
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