Tax Free Holiday
Clothing
During the August 1-2 sales tax holiday, the following items will be exempt:
Clothing (including footwear) with a sales price of $100.00 or less per item. The exemption excludes clothing accessories such as jewelry, handbags, umbrellas, eyewear, watches, and watchbands.
Examples of exempt items:
• Antique/vintage clothing• Aprons, household and shop• Athletic clothing (e.g., ski wear, uniforms, tennis apparel)• Athletic pads and guards• Athletic supporters• Baby receiving blankets• Baby clothes• Bandanas• Bathing suits and caps• Bathing suit cover-ups• Belts and suspenders• Belts for weightlifting or back support• Blouses• Bras• Caps and hats• Coats and jackets of all types• Capes, shawls, and wraps• Corsets and corset laces• Costumes• Coveralls• Dresses• Diapers, children and adult,including disposable and reusable diapers and diaper covers• Ear muffs• Football pads• Footwear of all types including cleated and spiked shoes• Formal wear• Garters and garter belts• Girdles• Gloves and mittens for any purpose• Hats and caps• Hand muffs• Headbands (athletic)• Helmets• Hosiery• Insoles and inserts for shoes• Knee pads• Lab coats• Leg warmers• Leotards and tights• Lingerie• Neckties and bowties• Pants• Rainwear• Robes• Scarves• Shin guards• Shirts• Shoe laces• Shorts and skorts• Skates (ice, roller, rollerblades)• Skirts• Sleepwear• Socks• Suits• Sweaters• T-shirts• Underwear including long or thermal underwear• Uniforms, athletic and non-athletic• Vests
Examples of taxable items:
• Baby bibs• Belt buckles sold separately• Briefcases• Clothing accessories or equipment• Corsages and boutonnieres• Cosmetics• Costume masks sold separately• Crib blankets• Cuff links• Diaper bags• Eyewear, nonprescription• Fanny packs• Hair notions including, but not limited to, barrettes, hair bows,and hair nets• Handbags• Handkerchiefs• Hard hats• Jewelry• Key cases• Life jackets and vests• Masks and goggles, protective and swim• Materials used to repair clothing and shoes• Patches and emblems sold separately• Personal flotation devices• Sewing equipment and supplies• Sewing materials• Umbrellas• Wallets• Watches• Watchbands• Wigs and hair pieces
Computers
During the August 1-2 sales tax holiday, the following items will be exempt:
Computers, computer components, and prewritten software purchased for noncommercial home or personal use with a sales price of $1000 or less per item.
Examples of exempt items:
• Batteries (designed for acomputer)• Cables (computer)• Car adaptors for laptops• Central processing units• Compact disk drives• Computers including electronic book readers and laptop, desktop,handheld, tablet, and tower computers, consisting of a central processing unit, random access memory, and a storage drive• Data storage devices (e.g., DVDs,CDs, flash drives, diskettes,memory cards) (excluding those designed for use in digital cameras or other taxable items)• Docking stations (designed for a computer)• Hard drives (computer)• Keyboards (computer)• Memory• Microphones• Modems• Monitors• Motherboards• Mouses• Personal digital assistant devices(except cellular telephones)• Port replicators• Prewritten computer software• Printer cartridges• Printers (including "all-in-one"models)• Routers• Scanners• Speakers (computer)• Web cameras• Zip drives
Examples of taxable items:
• Batteries (regular)• Cases for electronic devices• CDs/DVDs (music, voice orprerecorded item)• Cellular telephones• Computer bags• Copy machines• Digital cameras• Game controllers (e.g., joy sticks)• Game systems and consoles• MP3 Players or accessories• Projectors• Surge protectors• Televisions• Items purchased for commercial use
School Supplies
During the August 1-2 sales tax holiday, the following items will be exempt:
School supplies purchased for noncommercial use with a sales price of $20.00 or less per item.
Only the following items are exempt:
• Binders• Blackboard chalk• Book bags• Calculators• Cellophane tape• Clay and glazes for artwork• Compasses• Composition books• Computer printers, printer paper,and printer ink• Computer storage media• Crayons• Erasers• Folders (expandable, pocket,plastic, and manila)• Glue, paste, and paste sticks• Handheld electronic schedulers,except devices that are cellular phones• Highlighters• Index card boxes• Index cards• Legal pads• Lunch boxes• Markers• Notebooks• Paintbrushes for artwork• Paints for artwork• Paper (loose leaf ruled notebook paper, copy paper, graph paper,tracing paper, manila paper,colored paper, poster board, and construction paper)• Pencil boxes and other school supply boxes• Pencil sharpeners• Pencils• Pens• Personal digital assistants, except devices that are cellular phones• Protractors• Reference books• Reference maps and globes• Rulers• Scissors• Sketch and drawing pads• Textbooks• Watercolors for artwork• Workbooks• Writing tablets
Examples of taxable items:
• Briefcases• Envelopes• Janitorial Supplies• Medical Supplies• Supplies used in a trade or business
