Back To School Tax Holiday Kicks Off At Week's End

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) — The wildly popular back-to-school sales tax holiday kicks off at the end of this week.

However, this year it will be a lot shorter. The sales tax holiday begins Friday at 12:01 a.m. and will last the entire weekend. Last year's back to school tax holiday lasted 10 days.

Shoppers won't have to pay state or local sales taxes on clothes worth $60 or less and on school supplies worth $15 or less.

That's a sizable drop from last year when shoppers could buy clothing worth $100 or less without paying taxes.

Another major change for this year is that legislators eliminated computers from the tax break.

Gov. Rick Scott asked for a longer tax holiday but legislators ignored his request.

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