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Nov 30, 2007 9:32 am US/Eastern

Pa. Kmart Shopper Wins Toilet Paper Lawsuit

MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) ― A Murrysville woman has won her lawsuit against a Monroeville Kmart store that wrongly charged her sales tax on toilet paper.

Mary Bach won $100 plus court costs Thursday from a district judge in Monroeville.

Bach sued after she was twice charged 28 cents, seven percent sales tax on a $4 package of toilet tissue, at the Kmart store in Monroeville.

Kmart says it won't appeal the ruling because they don't want to fight with a customer.

Instead, the discount chain is working to correct the problem.

In Pennsylvania, clothes and some other items deemed necessities, including toilet paper, are exempt from sales tax.

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