Re: but really...how much does it costs?


Well I reckon that next month come mother's day I am going to be
scrutinizing my reciepts and possibly making some phone calls then.

For I am sure as anything that the one store does not allow us to buy
any food that has tax on it, and another charges us tax seperately for
food stamp purchases. Wouldn't make much difference if the stores had
a clue about what they should tax and what they shouldn't. Sometimes
though you get an item that for the life of you you can't figure out
why they are taxing it.

You know you are supposed to be able to buy food seeds with them too,
but I have never run across a store that lets you. Pity that, some
really hard years it would have saved us a lot of grief.

NightMist

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:13:16 -0600, "SNIGDIBBLY" <snigdibbly@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Its federal policy that you can't charge sales tax on purchases made with
>food stamps. Anyone who charges sales tax for items purchased with food
>stamps could lose their ability to collect food stamps for payment and pay a
>still penality. You need to call the Food Stamp hotline if someone is
>charging sales tax for these items. Now they can charge sales tax for non
>foodstamp items and you may confusing that. Foodstamps can pay for any food
>item - candy, coke, etc. But it won't pay for toilet paper, soap or laundry
>supplies. Foodstamps are a federal program and individual states can't
>change the basic federal policy. As an eligibility worker I have had
>multiple workshops and been tested too many times over this stuff. You can
>go online and the Foodstamp Policy manuals are there for everyone to read as
>well as the Federal mandates.
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>>
>> Whoa!
>>
>> Wrong wrong wrong!
>>
>> Some stores let you buy taxed food items but charge you cash for the
>> tax. Some do not let you buy any item which has a tax on it. Either
>> way if a food item is taxed you pay the tax. I imagine it varies
>> state to state. I know that NY is a bit confusing over what is taxed
>> and sometimes what is foodstampable, and I imagine it is much the
>> same elsewhere.
>>
>> NightMist
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:40:17 -0600, "SNIGDIBBLY" <snigdibbly@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Poor people on food stamps don't pay sales tax on the food they purchase
>>>with the stamps any where in the US. Missouri doesn't charge tax on food
>>>items but Arkansas does. If I need a lot of things I drive the few miles
>>>to
>>>the Missouri state line and shop at the Walmart Super Center in Jane, MO
>>>to
>>>avoid sales tax. That reminds me. I live in a dry county and I need to
>>>drive to the state line to pick up some rum for my fruit cakes and some
>>>apple brandy for the thanksgiving punch.
>>>
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