Governor Wants Food Tax Review
HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont announced that he received a revised policy statement from the Department of Revenue Services (DRS) updating its guidance of the recently adopted law on prepared foods sold in grocery stores in order to better reflect the intention of the legislature when it was adopted as part of the state budget earlier this year. As a matter of routine practice, DRS creates policy statements like these whenever new laws the agency is responsible for enforcing are adopted so that residents and businesses can have a better understanding of how it recommends the statute be applied. Earlier this week, the governor directed DRS to review its guidance on the prepared foods law, expressing his concern that…