SB876 — Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the 5 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from 3 cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of the wholesale cost price. - Amends TCA Title 67.

SB876 — Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the 5 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from 3 cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of the wholesale cost price. - Amends TCA Title 67. · Informed CitizenrySenate Bill 876 amends Tennessee Code Annotated Title 67 to change state sales taxes on food and tobacco products. The bill eliminates the 5 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption. I…Open in Informed Citizenry