Tax Free Weekend For Back-To-School Supplies Coming Up
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - The start of the 2020-2021 new school year is just around the corner.
Miami-Dade and Broward have said they will start with 100 percent distance learning.
Whether students will be learning at home or in the classroom, to help them get ready parents are urged to take advantage of the upcoming back-to-school sales tax holiday.
The three-day tax-free holiday weekend begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 7 and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 9.
During this sales tax holiday period, Florida law requires that no sales tax be collected on purchases of clothing, footwear and certain accessories selling for $60 or less and on purchases of certain school supplies selling for $15 or less.
The sales tax holiday also applies to the first $1,000 of the sales price of personal computers and certain computer-related accessories, when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use.
The tax-free school supplies include the following: binders, calculators, colored pencils, crayons, pens, construction paper, lunch boxes, notebook filler paper, glue, poster paper, rulers, staplers, scissors and more.
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Examples of school supplies that do not qualify for the tax exemption are books not otherwise exempt, correction tape-fluid-pens, masking tape, and printer and computer paper.
