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By Holly Hobbs
and Ali Khan
Capital News Service
With Fairfax County delegates at the forefront, the House last week voted unanimously to speed up a planned reduction in the state’s food tax.
House Bill 1638, which now goes before the Senate for approval, would reduce the state’s 3 percent grocery tax to 1.5 percent on July 1. Under a law passed by the General Assembly last year, the tax wasn’t scheduled to drop to 1.5 percent until July 1, 2007.
In addition to the state tax, local governments add a food tax of 1 percent.
The chief sponsor of HB
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