The proposal to tack a four-percent sales tax on groceries in Georgia appears dead for this General Assembly session. House leaders polled many in their chamber and determined late Tuesday that lawmakers would not feel good to back a return to taxes on food--in particular during tough economic times. This reverses the earlier plan for the measure to get debate today in House rules committee and possibly move for a vote Thursday. Under the plan, Georgians who file state income tax returns would have received a credit to make up for paying the grocery tax. Visitors to Georgia and illegal immigrants and others who don’t file state income tax returns would have paid the tax and not received that credit.
