The Ministry of Finance advises that the VAT-Free Shopping Days under the Cost of Living Assistance Programme 2026 have been rescheduled: Fri 2 – Sat 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