Here’s What’s Tax-Free During this Weekend’s Back to School Tax Holiday

The sales tax holiday period applies to certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item, as well as to clothing, footwear and certain accessories selling for $60 or less per item. It also applies to the first $1,000 of the sales price of personal computers and certain computer-related accessories purchased for noncommercial home or personal use.

Examples of items that are exempt from tax include:

Clothing and accessories: Shirts, pants, dressers, wallets, handbags, backpacks, fanny packs and diaper bags

School supplies: Pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, notebooks, notebook filler paper, legal pads, binders, lunchboxes, construction paper, markers, folders, poster board, composition books, poster paper, scissors, cellophane tape, glue, paste, rulers, computer disks, staplers and staples, protractors, compasses and calculators.

Personal computers: Electronic book readers, laptops, desktops, handheld devices, tablets, and tower computers. The term does not include cellular telephones, video game consoles, digital media receivers or devices that are not primarily designed to process data.

Personal computer-related accessories: Keyboards, computer mouse devices and accessories, personal digital assistants, monitors, other peripheral devices, modems, routers and non-recreational software, regardless of whether the accessories are used in association with a personal computer base unit.

FULL LIST HERE of what is and isn’t tax-free this weekend.

Cox Media Group