Florida - No Sales Tax this Weekend

The Basics: The sales tax exemption applies to each eligible item of clothing selling for $75 or less and to each eligible school supply item selling for $15 or less. The exemption will still apply no matter how many items are sold on the same invoice to a customer.

The Time Frame: This three-day tax exemption is in effect from 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 12, 2011, through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 14, 2011.

What’s In and What’s Out:

• Allowable Clothing: Any article of wearing apparel, including all footwear (except skis, swim fins, roller blades, and skates) intended to be worn on or about the human body.
• Clothing Not Included: Watches, watchbands, jewelry, umbrellas, handkerchiefs, or sporting equipment. Sales of clothing within a theme park, entertainment complex, public lodging establishment, or airport.
• Allowable School Supplies: Pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, notebooks, notebook filler paper, legal pads, binders, lunch boxes, construction paper, markers, folders, poster board, composition books, poster paper,scissors, cellophane tape, glue, paste, rulers, computer disks, protractors, compasses, and calculators.
• School Supplies Not Included: Sales of school supplies within a theme park, entertainment complex, public lodging establishment, or airport. Books are not included as part of this holiday.

This information was gathered from the Florida Department of Revenue. If you would like to see a line item list of exempt items, refer to pages 5 and 6 of the DoR Tax Item Publication.

*Basically you can expect to save about $3 if you do ALL of your shopping this weekend. whoo.hoo. If you find that you got a really great deal, email me the details and totals!