The budget seeks to change state law to exclude candy from the category of "essential" foods like fruit, meats and vegetables that are exempt from the 6.25% sales tax. Removing ca ...

Maura Healey proposed increasing state spending to more than $ ... What this is doing is simply saying when you go to the grocery store, instead of having candy treated like a purchase of bread and ...

Sweet treats could soon cost more in Massachusetts. When Gov. Maura Healey announced her $62 billion budget proposal earlier this month, she floated the idea of removing the sales tax exemption on ...

Gov. Maura Healey slipped a series of tax increases into her fiscal year 2026 budget like applying the sales tax to candy, ...

The candy tax Healey is proposing is part of her $62 billion budget that she filed with the Legislature last week.

The Gov. Maura Healey administration refiled the Municipal Empowerment Act on Friday that would give local governments the authority to raise taxes on items like lodging and meals, in order for ...

"President Trump proposing tariffs, that is going to cost all of us money," Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said.