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KS sales tax on food eliminated in 2025

By Greg Bebermeyer

12/30/2024

( MSC News)--Kansans should notice some savings at the grocery store in the new year as the state- sales tax on groceries will be fully eliminated on Jan. 1.

The current state tax of 2% will be reduced to zero. The tax cut is the third installment of a gradual elimination of the state's sales tax on groceries that was 6.5% before the Legislature and Governor Laura Kelly approved the tax cut in 2022.

The tax cut is only for the state's share of the food sales tax, and other taxing entities can still levy a sales tax on food. There is non-qualifying food that will remain at the 6.5% tax rate.

Kansans won't pay state sales tax on things like produce, milk, meat, bread, bottled water, soft drinks and dietary supplements, but prepared food won't qualify for the cut.

The Kansas Health Institute said at 6.5%, Kansas had one of the highest sales tax rates on food in the country.

Beginning Wednesday, Kansas will be among the 38 states that don't currently tax food.

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