Blue moon of the December 2009 lunar eclipse. A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.
New Tennessee Food Tax Rate. Tennessee state officials want businesses selling food to start preparing for reduced rates of sales and use tax. Effective July 1st, those tax rates on sales of food and food ingredients will be cut to 5.25%, down from 5.5%. Local sales and use tax rates may be added. According to the Tennessee Department of Revenue, changes to cash registers and accounting systems should be completed by that date.
Tennessee State Sales Tax - 2017 State Taxes Guide. Every state figures out a way to collect revenue in the form of taxes, but not every state is equal in how they go about doing that. Some states have a high sales tax while others have no sales tax at all.