Does your back to school shopping spree include your state’s tax-free weekend? If not, it totally should!
Many states offer tax-free weekends toward the end of July and in August to give parents a big break on their back to school shopping. Before you stock up on paper, pencils, backpacks, and new shoes, look to see when your state is offering a tax-free weekend, what items are eligible for the tax break, and if there are any restrictions.
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Dates and eligible items may change each year, so stay tuned here for next year’s list of tax-free weekends!
Tax-Free Weekends 2017
Dates: July 21-23, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing: Less than $100 per item
- Computers, computer software, and school computer supplies: A single purchase with a sales price of $750 or less
- School supplies, school art supplies & school instructional materials: Sales price of $50 or less, per item (noncommercial purchases)
- Books: Sales price of $30 or less per book (noncommercial purchases)
Dates: August 5-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing: Less than $100 per item
- Clothing accessory or equipment: Less than $50 per item
- School supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials
Dates: August 20-26, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing, footwear, and accessories: less than $60 per item
- School supplies: Less than $15 per item
Georgia
NEW IN 2017: Georgia has eliminated the two tax-free shopping weekends. More information here.
Dates: August 4-5, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: less than $100 per item
Dates: August 4-5, 2017
Eligible Items:
- First $2,500 of the purchase price on most items (“tangible personal property for non-business use”)
Dates: August 13-19, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
- New in 2017: The first $40 of a backpack or bookbag purchase is also tax-free.
Dates: July 28-29, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing: Less than $100 per item
- School supplies: Less than $50 per purchase
- Computer software: Less than $350
- Computer peripheral devices: Less than $1,500
- Graphing calculators: Less than $150
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
- Computers: Less than $1,000
- Computer hardware: Less than $500
- School supplies: Less than $30 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing: Less than $75 per item
- School supplies and school instructional materials: Less than $20 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing, accessories and footwear
- School supplies
- Computers, printers and printer supplies, and computer software
- Blankets, bed spreads, bed linens, comforter sets, bath towels, shower curtains, and pillows
Dates: July 28-30, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing: Less than $100
- School supplies: Less than $100
- Computers: Less than $1,500
Dates: August 11-13, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
- School supplies and backpacks: Less than $100 per item
Dates: August 4-6, 2017
Eligible Items:
- Clothing and footwear: Less than $100 per item
- School supplies: Less than $20 per item
- Portable generators: Less than $1,000 per item
- Gas-powered chainsaws: Less than $350 per item
- Chainsaw accessories: Less than $60 per item
- Other hurricane preparedness products: Less than $60 per item
- Qualifying Energy Star and WaterSense items: Less than $2,500
And, don’t forget there is no sales tax year-round in Delaware, Montana, Oregon, and New Hampshire!
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