During this year’s (2022) legislative session, South Dakota democratic gubernatorial candidate Jamie Smith supported a bill that would have repealed the 4.5% state sales tax on groceries. The bill passed the House, but was killed in the Senate.
Late last month (Sept. 28, 2022), republican Governor Kristi Noem made a campaign stop in Rapid City announcing her intent to get the tax repealed in the upcoming legislative session. It’s a move Smith calls “opportunistic.”
Smith is one of several legislators who have urged the governor to call a special session.
Smith believes the grocery tax repeal will be brought up in the 2023 legislative session.
Earlier this month, Noem declined to call a special session admitting she doesn’t have enough votes to pass the grocery tax repeal just yet.
Libertarian Tracey Quint is also running for Governor.
(News partner KWAT contributed to this story.)
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