AN ACT REDUCING THE RATE OF THE SALES AND USE TAXES.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how Chapter 219 will be amended, only that the rates are being reduced.

Lowering Sales and Use Taxes

This act reduces the rates of both sales and use taxes to six percent.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the rate of sales tax to six percent.
• Changes the rate of use tax to six percent.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who buy goods and services in Connecticut.
• Businesses that sell goods and services in Connecticut.

Terms To Know

Sales tax

A tax charged by sellers on the sale of goods or services to buyers.

Use tax

A tax that must be paid when someone uses, stores, or consumes something in a state without paying sales tax on it.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the current rate of sales and use taxes.
• It is unclear what will happen to government revenue from these taxes after the reduction.

Official Summary Text

To reduce the rate of the sales and use taxes to six per cent.

Current Bill Text

LCO No. 687 1 of 1

General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5116
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 687

Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND
BONDING

Introduced by:
REP. GODFREY, 110th Dist.

AN ACT REDUCING THE RATE OF THE SALES AND USE TAXES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That chapter 219 of the general statutes be amended to reduce the rate 1
of the sales and use taxes to six per cent. 2
Statement of Purpose:
To reduce the rate of the sales and use taxes to six per cent.