ONCE AGAIN, AARP IS A SOURCE OF MISINFORMATION

[nctarheel]

Read the article, TEN STATES THAT TAX GROCERIES IN 2025, and you will see ERROR AFTER ERROR in that article. A map is provided that shows which states charge taxes and which do not.

I live in North Carolina and they DO tax groceries....BUT NOT IF YOU READ THE AARP ARTICLE!!!!

If you read the comment pages, North Carolina isn't the only state that TAXES GROCERIES the writers of the article overlooked.

AARP does this time and again. They post articles, they don't vet the information, and usually it cost you and I money.

[GailL1]

Why would a state not tax groceries ?  Some states do have a special rate for groceries (food stuff) - purchased at a grocery type establishment but not a restaurant or fast food establishment.  

Isn’t that what NC does?  A lower rate on qualifying food items.

Food stuff is about my only purchases most months.  

[papawofboo]

You ask why don't they. Not taxing groceries is one way that they can help everyone. When you travel around on trips you will see it all 3 ways, no tax, some tax and same as sales tax. We have times in the year when they cut the state tax on groceries but not local. Also a big tax break is given on the week-end before school starts when they take the tax off of school supplies and many other items from shoes to pc's ($ limit on these)

[Winter2025VA]

Papaw @papawofboo , I need an Old Folks tax break EVERY DAY!!!

➡️*** YOU WROTE:  Also a big tax break is given on the week-end before school starts when they take the tax off of school supplies and many other items from shoes to pc's ($ limit on these)

Take care,

Nicole  👵

[nctarheel]

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@GailL1 wrote:

Some states do have a special rate for groceries (food stuff) - purchased at a grocery type establishment but not a restaurant or fast food establishment.  

Isn’t that what NC does?  A lower rate on qualifying food items.

The point of my comment was that the article is wrong, wrong, wrong and that AARP does not vet the articles they publish at their web site.

In fact, if you read the reader comments attached to that article, the writers of the article showed many states that "DO NOT TAX GROCERIES" but actually "DO TAX GROCERIES" as does NORTH CAROLINA.

You are correct that NORTH CAROLINA has different taxes for prepared food versus other foods but they tax groceries nonetheless.