Grocery prices are going up in Illinois on July 1 after an election-year tax suspension ends. State lawmakers pondered making the break permanent, but the majority refused to join the other 37 states that don’t tax groceries at all.
Among the 10 most populous states, Illinois is the only one with a grocery tax. States that tax groceries make up roughly 18% of the population.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker suspended the 1% tax in his election-year budget, which ends June 30. Pritzker also delayed the state gas tax hike for six months. The automatic gas tax hike returned Jan. 1 and another hits July 1, for a total increase of 6.2 cents per gallon in 2023. The gas tax was 19 cents a gallon before Pritzker took office, raised it and built in automatic increases that take it to 45.4 cents on July 1.
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