Back-to-School sales tax holiday is this weekend

Florida’s 2016 Back-to-School tax-free weekend is Friday, Aug. 5 – Sunday, Aug. 7.

During this sales tax holiday period, Florida law directs that no sales tax or local option tax (also known as discretionary sales surtax) will be collected on purchases of:

• Clothing, footwear, and certain accessories selling for $60 or less per item, and
• Certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item.

Last year, the clothing price limit was $100. Another change this year is that computers are no longer exempt from sales tax.

This holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 5, 2016, and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 7, 2016.

This holiday does not apply to:

• Any item of clothing selling for more than $60;
• Any school supply item selling for more than $15;
• Books that are not otherwise exempt;
• Personal computers and computer-related accessories;
• Rentals or leases of any of these items;
• Repairs or alterations of any of these items; or
• Sales of clothing or school supplies in a theme park, entertainment complex, public lodging establishment, or airport.

Complete details are available here.

Examples of Exempt School Supply Items:

• Binders
• Calculators
• Cellophane (transparent) tape
• Colored pencils
• Compasses
• Composition books
• Computer disks (blank CDs only)
• Construction paper
• Crayons
• Erasers
• Folders
• Glue (stick and liquid)
• Highlighters
• Legal pads
• Lunch boxes
• Markers
• Notebook filler paper
• Notebooks
• Paste
• Pencils, including mechanical and refills
• Pens, including felt, ballpoint, fountain, highlighters, and refills
• Poster board
• Poster paper
• Protractors
• Rulers
• Scissors