Do you pay sales tax on food in Florida?

Answer 1

Prepared food is taxed. (Fast food, restaurants and a hot dog from a convenience store.) Ingredients of meals are not taxed.(raw meat, sugar, raw or canned vegetables.) While no one likes taxes, virtually all places that have a sales tax, while they may not tax food as a special exemption, do tax sales of just about any tangible personal property or service, which includes meals. When exactly food becomes a meal is sometimes weird (for example, in many places, a pre-made sandwich at in a supermarket is food, but the exact same one made custom is a meal. One roll is a meal, but 6 or more is food, etc.). Clearly, something like fast food (or a restaurant dinner) is a meal and subject to the tax - again, almost everywhere.