Barrington the latest to adopt local grocery tax

Barrington has become the latest village to adopt a local grocery tax to replace the state-collected version that will soon be eliminated.

At Monday’s meeting, the village board passed an ordinance allowing the village to implement a 1% local grocery tax. It goes into effect in January, when the state’s grocery tax sunsets.

The village joins several other towns to approve the tax in recent weeks.

It is expected to maintain about $600,000 annually in the village’s budget from two grocery stores in town. About half the revenue comes from shoppers who live outside the village, officials estimated.