{"id":1345044,"date":"2024-08-07T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1345044"},"modified":"2024-08-12T03:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:12:59","slug":"tax-free-weekend-turns-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1345044","title":{"rendered":"Tax Free Weekend turns 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYLER – \"\"While turning 25 this year, Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sales tax holiday has not lost any of its luster. The tax-exempt weekend has saved Texans millions of dollars annually on clothing, footwear and school supplies heading into the school year. From its inception in 1999, when the Comptroller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office estimated $32.6 million in combined state and local sales tax savings, Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 oldest sales tax holiday has saved shoppers an estimated $1.8 billion to date on qualified items priced below $100. That includes a projected $143.4 million in state and local sales tax savings during this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holiday, Aug. 9-11. Apparel and school supplies that may be purchased tax free are listed on the Comptroller’s website at TexasTaxHoliday.org. As long as the item is sold during the designated days, you can get the tax break on items purchased in stores and online, or by phone, mail, custom order and other means.<\/p>\n

The sales tax holiday initially was proposed by then-state Sen. Rodney Ellis as a weeklong sales tax break on all items priced less than $200, but amendments trimmed it before the 76th Texas Legislature ultimately approved it.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers, however, have since broadened items included in the holiday. The original exemption was only for clothing and footwear priced less than $100. The Legislature expanded the holiday to include exemption of school backpacks in 2007 and added school supplies in 2009.<\/p>\n

The Texas Legislature didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop there. Lawmakers have approved tax holidays for emergency preparation supplies in April as well as for Energy Star\u00c2\u00ae and water-efficient products on Memorial Day weekend. Although each holiday has specific guidelines, buyers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need a special exemption certificate to buy items tax free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – While turning 25 this year, Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sales tax holiday has not lost any of its luster. The tax-exempt weekend has saved Texans millions of dollars annually on clothing, footwear and school supplies heading into the school year. From its inception in 1999, when the Comptroller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office estimated $32.6 million in combined state and … Continue reading Tax Free Weekend turns 25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1345046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/672ccbc081e3f5164d03cdfe34dff2d3-e1723056880591-216x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:07:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/672ccbc081e3f5164d03cdfe34dff2d3-e1723056880591-216x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345044","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345268,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345044\/revisions\/1345268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}