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Grocery tax plan’s in-effect date hazy

Posted: November 17, 2012 at 3:59 a.m.

Gov. Mike Beebe’s plan to cut the state sales tax on groceries is dependent on bond obligations that won’t end for years or the resolution of a decades-old lawsuit that requires the state to pay millions for desegregation efforts.

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