Virginia House Bill 13: RS and UT; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products beginning on July 1, 2026. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue.

Latest action

Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote) (2026-02-11)

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