Back to School 2013: Sales Tax Holiday Weekends for Alabama, Mississippi & Florida (List of tax exempt items)

Shopping for back to school?  Get the dates, rules, tax exempt items and participating counties and more, here....

ALABAMA

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Dates are 12:01 a.m. Friday Aug. 2 through midnight Sunday Aug. 4.

Jefferson County will not be participating but cities in JeffCo will which means you will still pay 2% sales tax on exempt items. For a complete list of participating or non-participating counties and cities for Alabama go here.

Go here for a list of sales tax holiday quick reference sheet of exempt items for Alabama

Here is a list of items you can purchase tax free that weekend:

CLOTHING - $100 or Less, per article of clothing
Includes all human wearing apparel suitable for general use - Not an all-inclusive list
• Belts
• Boots
• Caps
• Coats
• Diapers
• Dresses
• Gloves
• Gym Suits
• Hats
• Hosiery
• Jackets
• Jeans
• Neckties
• Pajamas
• Pants
• Raincoats
• Robes
• Sandals
• Scarves
• School Uniforms
• Shirts
• Shoes
• Shorts
• Socks
• Sneakers
• Underwear


COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, & SCHOOL COMPUTER SUPPLIES -

A single purchase with a sales price of $750 or Less -- INCLUDES THE iPAD!

COMPUTERS - For purposes of the exemption, a computer may include a laptop, desktop, or tower computer system which consists of a CPU and devices such as a display monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers sold as a computer package.

Computer parts and devices not sold as part of a package with the CPU, will not qualify for the exemption.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SCHOOL COMPUTER SUPPLIES - An item commonly used by a student in a course of study in which a computer is used

- All inclusive list includes:
• Computer Storage Media (diskettes, compact disks)
• Handheld electronic schedulers, except devices that are cellular phones
• Personal digital assistants, except devices that are cellular phones
• Computer Printers
• Printer Supplies for Computers (printer paper, printer ink)

SCHOOL SUPPLIES, SCHOOL ART SUPPLIES & SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL -
Sales Price of $50 or Less, per item (Noncommercial Purchases)

SCHOOL SUPPLIES - All Inclusive List:
• Binders
• Blackboard Chalk
• Book Bags
• Calculators
• Cellophane Tape
• Compasses
• Composition Books
• Crayons
• Erasers
• Folders (expandable, pocket, plastic
& manila)
• Glue, paste, and paste sticks
• Highlighters
• Index Cards
• Index Card Boxes
• Legal Pads
• Lunch Boxes
• Markers
• Notebooks
• Paper (loose leaf ruled notebook
paper, copy paper, graph paper,
tracing paper, manila paper, colored
paper, poster board, and
construction paper)
• Pencil Boxes & Other School
Supply Boxes
• Pencil Sharpeners
• Pencils
• Pens
• Protractors
• Rulers
• Scissors
• Writing Tablets

SCHOOL ART SUPPLIES - All Inclusive List:
• Clay & Glazes
• Paints (Acrylic, Tempora & Oil)
• Paintbrushes for artwork
• Sketch and Drawing Pads
• Watercolors

SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL - All Inclusive List: (Written material commonly used by
a student in a course of study as a reference and to learn the subject being taught)
• Reference Maps and Globes
• Required Textbooks on an official school book list with a sales price of more than $30 and less than $50

BOOKS - Sales Price of $30 or Less, per book (Noncommercial Purchases)

BOOKS - The term book is defined as a set of printed sheets bound together and published in a volume with an ISBN number.

 FLORIDA --

Sales Tax Holiday Aug. 2 - 4:
Sales tax holiday will begin at 12:01 a.m., Friday, Aug. 2, and end at midnight Sunday, Aug. 4. During this period, no Florida sales tax or local option tax will be collected on sales of clothing, footwear, and certain accessories selling for $75 or less per item, or on certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item.

  • List of tax-exempt and taxable items
MISSISSIPPI --

The annual sales tax holiday begins 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 26, and ends 12:00 midnight Saturday, July 27 Go here to review the  listing of eligible and non-eligible clothing and footwear items.

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