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Currently, Nebraska does not place as tax on groceries, and that includes sodas and other sugary drinks. One state senator would like to change that.
LB 447 would tax all, non-alcoholic beverages that contain natural or artificial sweeteners at the standard sales tax rate, which is 7% in Lincoln. It would generate 11 million dollars to create the Nebraska Healthy Kids Fund to help fight childhood obesity, a report shows.
Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery has pitched his soda tax proposal and asked the Legislature’s Revenue Committee to include his bill in a tax commission study. The beverage industry and health activists went head-to-head debating whether to tax soda to support health programs.
Check out the bill’s progress here!
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