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Tribune Editorial: Harmons finds that food tax hike doesn’t check out

Related Topics: Fat tax, Utah, Gary Herbert, Harmons

Owners of the Utah-based supermarket chain announced Thursday that their 19 stores will be actively hosting the signature-gathering campaign aimed at overturning the tax reform package passed last month by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gary Herbert.

The income tax breaks the upscale chain’s owners would harvest from the complex tax bill were apparently not enough to overcome their righteous objection to the sharp increase in the sales tax rate to be charged on the groceries their customers buy.

The same bill that cuts the state’s already low and flat income tax rate from 4.