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What I learned today...food is not taxed in California but food coloring is ?

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Oct 16 '17, 20:58

And the California Redemption Value charged on bottles and cans is considered to be part of the cost of the product and is therefore also taxable.

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food colouring isn't really food, I guess. I know there are all kinds of weird rules on what qualifies. - mafic Oct 16, 21:05 6
- Basically if you take it with you to prepare at home it's non-taxable. Prepared in store is taxed. -- nm - Meg Oct 16, 21:11 3
  - Pretty similar to here in BC. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 16, 21:18
  - CA is not alone in that. Someplace(s) I've lived it's that way too, perhaps it's like that here in NY? -- nm - ty97 Oct 16, 21:14 1
    - Yup and if it's prepared in store it's not able to be bought with food stamps. -- nm - Krusty Oct 17, 05:26
- don't know if this is still in place, but the example from the early days of the GST was 1 doughnut - taxed, 6 doughnuts - no tax. -- nm - Reagen Oct 16, 21:07 1
  - yeah, similar weirdness. snack vs. food thing. and there was always almost no GST on anything at costco. -- nm - mafic Oct 16, 21:10

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