Governor Mark Warner signed legislation Tuesday reducing the sales tax on groceries by one-and-a-half cents on the dollar. The Department of Taxation says the reduction will save a typical family of four with a household income of 60,000 dollars about 83 dollars a year. Beginning July first, the tax on groceries will go from four percent to two-and-a-half percent. Two percent goes to localities and a half-percent to the state's highway fund. The tax was scheduled to be slashed in half-percent increments over three years, but a thriving economy enabled the legislature to speed up the reduction.