Compliance

Charge the reduced food tax on mixers and snacks

Tick SNAP-eligible food on a mixer or snack and it is taxed at Alabama's reduced state food rate (2%), with your local rates unchanged — alcohol, tobacco and hemp never qualify.

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Steps

1. Open Inventory and click the product's name.
2. Under Regulated product, tick SNAP-eligible food (reduced food tax).
3. Click Save changes.
4. At the register the cart's tax includes the lower rate; the receipt shows a Food tax line beside Tax.

Good to know

• Only the STATE part of the rate is lower: Alabama's state food rate is 2% (from 1 September 2025) against 4% for everything else, so a store at 8.25% charges food 6.25%.
• Alcohol, tobacco, vapes, nicotine and hemp are never SNAP food, so the box is greyed out for them.
• The Sales tax report shows food sales and their tax on their own Food (reduced rate) line.
• A sale with a reduced-rate food item needs the connection: an offline register asks you to reconnect.

Related guides

• Sell hemp, tobacco, vapes and other regulated products
• Edit a product
• Run a report
• Log a refused alcohol sale