Centers fight to keep meals tax-exempt

Senior centers have provided affordable meals, tax-free, for a long time.

These meals cater to seniors and their guests. Soon though, Golden Hour Senior Center and other Wyoming senior centers may have to start charging tax on their meals to the nonseniors that purchase a meal at the center.

According to Golden Hour’s executive director Sheela Schermetzler, the meal-tax issue started when a restaurant owner in Elk Mountain witnessed workers enter the senior center near the restaurant owner’s place of business.

The question now has been raised to whether meals served at senior centers should be...