The Ministry of Finance advises that the VAT-Free Shopping Days under the Cost of Living Assistance Programme 2026 have been rescheduled: 2-3 October 2026 are the NEW DATES.
Some things in Grenada are always VAT-free — no special day needed.
Already 0% VAT on the following items:
Bread (unsweetened)
A supply of chicken: back, neck, drumettes and wings, fresh, chilled or frozen as may be specified in regulations
Medicines for chronic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular disease/hypertension, renal failure, glaucoma, cancer, asthma)
Agricultural inputs
- Animal feed other than food for domesticated animals generally held as pets
- Beekeeping suppliers
- Bees for breeding
- Cardboard boxes/cartons and packaging film specially designed for use in transporting unprocessed agricultural products
- Egg trays/boxes
- Eggs for hatching
- Extraction materials
- Fertilisers
- Herbicides
- Hive components
- Killing cones
- Pesticides for agricultural purposes only
- Poultry feeders, waterers, nipples
- Poultry for rearing
- Seeds, seedlings, plantlets for agricultural purposes only
Machinery and equipment specifically designed for agricultural or horticultural purposes:
- Cocoa knives
- Cutlass
- Files
- Forks
- Grub hoes
- Hand forks
- Hand spades
- Hoes
- Pick axes
- Pruning tools and knives
- Rakes
- Sprayers (including mist blowers
Fishing inputs
- Bilge pumps
- Commercial fishing boats
- Compass
- Crimping tool
- Distress flares
- Fibreglass mesh materials
- Fibreglass resin and hardener
- Fishing hooks
- Fishing line of all types
- Fishing nets
- Floats buoys corks
- Gel packs
- Global positioning systems (GPS)
- Hydraulic longline reel
- Hydraulic steering system
- Inboard engines
- Life buoys
- Life jackets
- Longline snap connector
- Marine anti-fouling paints
- Marine batteries
- Navy coat epoxy
- Outboard engines
- Plastic bags for holding fish (export only)
- Propeller shaft
- Radio telephones
- Seine wire and synthetic netting twine
- Steering controls with cable
- VHF marine radios and antennas
- Waterproof boxes
Unprocessed agricultural products
- Fresh and frozen fish (excluding crustaceans and molluscs e.g. Lambies, lobsters, clams etc.),
- Fresh whole eggs
- Fresh/chilled poultry and meats
- Fruits
- Ground provisions
- Honey
- Vegetables (except items contained in the negative list)
Other items, effective 31 December, 2021
- Alaska pollock
- Cheddar cheese
- Cod
- Dried fish other than edible fish offal whether or not salted but not smoked
- Fish fillet dried, salted or in brine, but not smoked
- Other salted fish: mackerel, herrings, alewives, saithe, pollock, haddock and hake
- Split peas
- Turkey back, neck and wings
- Turkey cuts of offal, fresh or chilled
- Turkey meat cut in pieces
- Vegetable cooking oil
Other items, effective 31 December, 2021
- Adult diapers/adult disposable pampers
- Baby diapers/napkins and napkin liners for babies of wadding
- Bathing soap
- Black-eye peas
- Canola oil
- Coconut oil
- Condoms
- Hand sanitisers
- Laundry soap
- Lentil peas
- Maize (corn) oil
- Olive oil
- Red kidney beans
- Sanitary napkins/sanitary towels and tampons
- Soya bean oil
- Sunflower oil
- Toilet paper
- Toothpaste
- Veggie patties
Energy-saving devices
- Energy-saving bulbs
- Solar panels, inverters and deep-cell batteries
- Solar water heaters
Hurricane mitigating devices
- Hurricane shutters: hinged or roller, manual or mechanised
- Hurricane straps and ties
Already 0% VAT on the following items:
- A supply of electricity by Grenlec provided for residential purposes, for the first 99 kilowatt hours
- A supply of newspapers as may be prescribed in regulations
- A supply of textbooks as prescribed by the regulations
- Brown, white rice and broken rice imported in bulk for repackaging
- Fuel (gasoline, diesel, cooking gas, kerosene)
- Goods imported by returning Grenadian nationals who are assigned by the government to a regional or international organisation to which Grenada is a member
- Infant preparation (milk-based)
- Micro-computers and accessories specified in regulations
- Milk (fresh milk, condensed, powder, evaporated)
- Pipe-borne water supplied by Nawasa for residential purposes
- Postage stamps
- The payment known as service charge to hotels, guest houses and restaurants
- Vacant and agricultural lands
- Wheat flour
Effective 6 April 2016
“Item 6. a supply of building materials for a qualifying investment under the Investment Act, 2014 or any regulations, where — (a) the qualifying costs exceed $30 million; (b) the purchaser is a registered person; (c) the supplier is a registered person; (d) the priority sector facility will be used for the purposes of a taxable activity.”
Effective 1 April 2023
A supply or import of production equipment for business use in the creative economy as approved by the minister with responsibility for the creative economy.
Effective 6 April 2016
A supply or import of electric vehicles and a supply or import of electric vehicle charging stations.
Source: Ministry of Finance
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