AP Wire | 09/09/2005 | Debit purchases by evacuees not exempt from Georgia sales taxes

AP Wire | 09/09/2005 | Debit purchases by evacuees not exempt from Georgia sales taxes: "Debit purchases by evacuees not exempt from Georgia sales taxes

DICK PETTYS

Associated Press

ATLANTA - Purchases made with debit cards issued to Hurricane Katrina evacuees by the federal government and other groups aren't exempt from Georgia's state sales taxes unless the goods they are used to buy - groceries, for example - already go untaxed, Georgia's revenue commissioner said Friday."