AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES IMPOSED ON MEALS SOLD BY AN EATING ESTABLISHMENT, CATERER OR GROCERY STORE.

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill to Remove Extra Tax on Meals

This bill removes an extra one percent tax added to meals bought at restaurants, from caterers, and in grocery stores.

What This Bill Does

• Eliminates the additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on meals sold by eating establishments, caterers, or grocery stores.

Limits and Unknowns

• The official text does not state when this change will take effect.
• The source material does not explain how much money the government currently collects from this specific one per cent charge.

Official Summary Text

To eliminate the additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on meals sold by eating establishments, caterers or grocery stores.

Current Bill Text

LCO No. 661 1 of 1

General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5085
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 661

Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND
BONDING

Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES IMPOSED ON
MEALS SOLD BY AN EATING ESTABLISHMENT, CATERER OR
GROCERY STORE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That chapter 219 of the general statutes be amended to eliminate the 1
additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on meals sold by 2
eating establishments, caterers or grocery stores. 3
Statement of Purpose:
To eliminate the additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on
meals sold by eating establishments, caterers or grocery stores.