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(KSL News) -- Leaders of charitable organizations and local churches joined together today in Salt Lake, calling for the state legislature to remove Utah's food sales tax.
Rev. Dan Webster, Utah Episcopal Diocese: "The sales tax on food disproportionately hurts the poor people in the state of Utah."
Organizers say removal of the tax would allow low-income families to save an average of three hundred dollars each year.
Leaders from the Utah Episcopal Diocese, Community Crossroads Urban Center, State House Speaker Greg Curtis, and Representative Merlynn Newbold are calling for the removal.
If the food tax is removed it would cost the state of Utah two hundred million dollars a year in revenue.
