Tennessee’s grocery tax holiday ends midnight Wednesday, but food insecurity doesn’t
Customers shop at Cash Saver's Midtown location in 2020. The grocery sales tax holiday offered an exemption from the 4% grocery tax on many, but not all, items purchased as grocery stores. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The one-month grocery tax holiday has helped people stretch their budgets, but it has not made a dent in the issue of food insecurity, the Mid-South Food Bank’s CEO says.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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