{"id":117671,"date":"2011-08-19T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117671"},"modified":"2011-08-21T05:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:52:15","slug":"goodwill-tax-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117671","title":{"rendered":"Goodwill Pitches In on Tax Free Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=117798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/Goodwill-Store-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Goodwill Store\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-117798\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2013 Texas shoppers get a break from state and local sales taxes today through Sunday, the state&#8217;s annual tax holiday. And, when buying clothes this weekend, you can help area school districts. <\/p>\n<p>Shop any of Goodwill Industries East Texas\u2019 stores on Tax Free Weekend, and Goodwill Industries of East Texas will be contributing 15% of their store sales to each of their 13 local school districts. Goodwill Industries of East Texas has 15 store locations in: Tyler, Longview, Marshall, Mineola, Palestine, Kilgore, Jacksonville, Henderson, Gladewater, Cedar Creek, Carthage, Canton and Athens.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, state law exempts most clothing and footwear priced under $100 from sales and use taxes, which could save shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend. Backpacks under $100 and used by elementary and secondary students are also exempt. A backpack is a pack with straps one wears on the back. The exemption during the sales tax holiday includes backpacks with wheels, provided they can also be worn on the back like a traditional backpack, and messenger bags. The exemption does not include items that are reasonably defined as luggage, briefcases, athletic\/duffle\/gym bags, computer bags, purses or framed backpacks. Ten or fewer backpacks can be purchased tax-free at one time without providing an exemption certificate to the seller.<\/p>\n<p>The 81st Texas Legislature passed HB 1801 in2009, which expands the list of items qualifying for exemption from Texas state and local sales and use taxes during the annual sales tax holiday in August. In addition to clothes, footwear and some backpacks, Texas families also get a sales tax break on most school supplies priced at less than $100 purchased for use by a student in an elementary or secondary school.<\/p>\n<p>The following is an all-inclusive list of qualifying school supplies (if priced less than $100):<br \/>\nBinders<br \/>\nBook bags<br \/>\nCalculators<br \/>\nCellophane tape<br \/>\nBlackboard chalk<br \/>\nCompasses<br \/>\nComposition books<br \/>\nCrayons<br \/>\nErasers<br \/>\nFolders; expandable, pocket, plastic, and manila<br \/>\nGlue, paste and paste sticks<br \/>\nHighlighters<br \/>\nIndex cards<br \/>\nIndex card boxes<br \/>\nLegal pads<br \/>\nLunch boxes<br \/>\nMarkers<br \/>\nNotebooks<br \/>\nPaper; loose leaf ruled notebook paper, copy paper, graph paper, tracing paper, manila paper, colored paper, poster board, and construction paper<br \/>\nPencil boxes and other school supply boxes<br \/>\nPencil sharpeners<br \/>\nPencils<br \/>\nPens<br \/>\nProtractors<br \/>\nRulers<br \/>\nScissors<br \/>\nWriting tablets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Texas shoppers get a break from state and local sales taxes today through Sunday, the state&#8217;s annual tax holiday. And, when buying clothes this weekend, you can help area school districts. Shop any of Goodwill Industries East Texas\u2019 stores on Tax Free Weekend, and Goodwill Industries of East Texas will be contributing 15% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodwill Pitches In on Tax Free Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 02:11:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117671"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118274,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117671\/revisions\/118274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}