Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has
issued a press release listing the
school supplies that will be
included in the state's sales tax
holiday during the weekend of August
21 - 23, 2009. Recent legislation
exempts school supplies priced less
than $100 from state and local sales
tax for the tax-free weekend. Please
see press release below for a list
of tax-free supplies.
Texas' August Sales Tax Holiday
Will Get Bigger
Date Issued: 06/24/2009
Tax Type(s): Sales and Use Tax
Texas' August Sales Tax Holiday Will
Get Bigger
(AUSTIN) � Great news for
back-to-school shoppers. For the
first time since it began in 1999,
the annual August sales tax holiday
will include many school supplies.
�A lot of families look forward to
saving their hard earned money
during the sales tax holiday
weekend,� Texas Comptroller Susan
Combs said. �Now they can make their
back-to-school budgets stretch even
further because more than two dozen
school supply items will be
tax-free.�
House Bill 1801 identifies school
supplies priced less than $100 that
will be exempt from state and local
sales tax for the tax-free weekend.
Pens, crayons, calculators,
notebooks, rulers, scissors and
lunch boxes are a few of the items
on the list. The full list can be
found below.
These items are in addition to
school backpacks and most clothing
and shoes priced less than $100 that
are already tax-free the weekend of
Aug. 21�23.
The Comptroller's office is sending
information to retailers about
implementing the expanded sales tax
holiday.
TAX-FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES
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Binders Lunch Boxes
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Book bags Markers
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Calculators Notebooks
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Cellophane tape Paper (loose leaf
ruled notebook paper,
copy paper, graph paper, tracing
paper,
manila paper, colored paper, poster
board,
and construction paper)
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Blackboard chalk Pencil boxes and
other school supply boxes
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Compasses Pencil sharpeners
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Composition books Pencils
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Crayons Pens
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Erasers Protractors
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Folders (expandable, pocket,
plastic, and manila) Rulers
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Glue, paste, and paste sticks
Scissors
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Highlighters Writing tablets
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Index cards
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Index card boxes
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Legal pads
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