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SALES TAX HOLIDAY INFORMATION
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has
issued a press release listing the
school supplies that will be
included in the state's sales tax
holiday during the weekend of August
21 - 23, 2009. Recent legislation
exempts school supplies priced less
than $100 from state and local sales
tax for the tax-free weekend. Please
see press release below for a list
of tax-free supplies.
Texas' August Sales Tax Holiday
Will Get Bigger
Date Issued: 06/24/2009
Tax Type(s): Sales and Use Tax
Texas' August Sales Tax Holiday Will
Get Bigger
(AUSTIN) — Great news for
back-to-school shoppers. For the
first time since it began in 1999,
the annual August sales tax holiday
will include many school supplies.
“A lot of families look forward to
saving their hard earned money
during the sales tax holiday
weekend,” Texas Comptroller Susan
Combs said. “Now they can make their
back-to-school budgets stretch even
further because more than two dozen
school supply items will be
tax-free.”
House Bill 1801 identifies school
supplies priced less than $100 that
will be exempt from state and local
sales tax for the tax-free weekend.
Pens, crayons, calculators,
notebooks, rulers, scissors and
lunch boxes are a few of the items
on the list. The full list can be
found below.
These items are in addition to
school backpacks and most clothing
and shoes priced less than $100 that
are already tax-free the weekend of
Aug. 21—23.
The Comptroller's office is sending
information to retailers about
implementing the expanded sales tax
holiday.
TAX-FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES
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Binders Lunch Boxes
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Book bags Markers
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Calculators Notebooks
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Cellophane tape Paper (loose leaf
ruled notebook paper,
copy paper, graph paper, tracing
paper,
manila paper, colored paper, poster
board,
and construction paper)
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Blackboard chalk Pencil boxes and
other school supply boxes
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Compasses Pencil sharpeners
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Composition books Pencils
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Crayons Pens
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Erasers Protractors
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Folders (expandable, pocket,
plastic, and manila) Rulers
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Glue, paste, and paste sticks
Scissors
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Highlighters Writing tablets
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Index cards
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Index card boxes
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Legal pads
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