Sales Tax Holidays

1. Clothing – $100 or less per article (excluding accessories and protective or recreational equipment)
2. Single purchases ($750 or less) of computers, computer software, and school computer supplies (excluding purchases for commercial use)
3. Noncommercial school supplies – $50 or less per item
4. Noncommercial purchases of books – $30 or less per item

Note: not all counties and municipalities are participating in the sales tax holiday. Click here to view an updated chart listing participation.

Severe weather preparedness items – $60 or less per item, except for generators and power cords, which are covered so long as they cost $1,000 or less. Note: not all counties and municipalities are participating in the sales tax holiday. Click here to view an updated chart listing participation.

1. Clothing and footwear – less than $100 per item
2. Clothing accessories and equipment – less than $50 per item
3. School supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials

1. Clothing and footwear – Less than $100 per item (excluding clothing accessories and protective or athletic clothing).

1. Selling for $10 or less: Reusable ice
2. Selling for $20 or less: Any portable, self-powered light source
3. Selling for $25 or less: Any gas or diesel fuel container, including LP gas and kerosene containers
4. Selling for $30 or less: Batteries, including rechargeable batteries (excluding automobile and boat batteries)
5. Selling for $50 or less: Bungee cords, Ground anchor systems, Radios (powered by battery, solar, or handcrank), Ratchet straps, Tarpaulins (tarps), Tie-down kits, Visqueen, plastic sheeting, plastic drop, cloths, and other flexible waterproof sheeting
6. Selling for $750 or less: Portable generators used to provide light or communications, or to preserve food in the event of a power outage
7. Coolers and ice chests (food-storage; nonelectrical)

Visit the Florida DOR’s web page for more information.

1. Clothing, footwear, and certain accessories selling for $60 or less per item
2. Certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item
3. The first $1,000 of the sales price of personal computers and certain computer-related accessories, when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use

1. Clothing and footwear – less than $100 per item (excluding clothing accessories).

State sales taxes will not be charged on the first $2,500 of a purchase. Purchases of vehicles subject to licenses and title and meals sold for on-site consumption or to-go orders will not be subject to the reduced tax rates.

Visit the Louisiana DOR’s webpage for more information.

1. Sales of Energy Star products (includes air conditioners, washers and dryers, furnaces, heat pumps, standard-size refrigerators, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs, dehumidifiers and programmable thermostats) and solar water heaters.

1. Clothing and footwear (excluding accessories) – $100 or less per item.

Visit the Maryland Comptroller’s web page for more information.

1. During the sales tax holiday, non-business sales at retail of single items of tangible personal property costing $2,500 or less are exempt from sales and use taxes, subject to certain exclusions.

Visit the Massachusetts DOR’s web page for more information.

1. Clothing and footwear – less than $100 per item.

2. School supplies – less than $100 per item.

1. Retail sales of firearms, ammunition, and hunting supplies. “Hunting supplies” means tangible personal property used for hunting, including, and limited to, archery equipment, firearm and archery cases, firearm and archery accessories, hearing protection, holsters, belts, and slings.

1. Clothing – $100 or less per item (excluding clothing accessories)
2. School supplies – $50 or less per item
3. Computer Software – $350 or less per item
4. Computers/computer peripheral devices – $1,500 or less
5. Graphing calculators – $150 or less per item

1. All retail sales of Energy Star certified new appliances (includes Clothes washers, Clothes dryers, Water heaters, Dishwashers, Air conditioners, Furnaces, Refrigerators, Freezers, and Heat pumps) of up to $1,500 per appliance

1. Clothing and footwear items – less than $100 per item (excluding accessories, athletic or protective clothing or footwear)
2. School supplies – less than $30 per item
3. Computers, e-readers that have computing functions, and tablets – $1,000 or less per item
4. Certain computer related items – $500 or less per item
5. Book bags, backpacks, maps and globes – less than $100 per item
6. Handheld calculators – less than $200 per item

NOTE: Retailers are not required to participate.

1. A clothing item priced at $75 or less
2. An item of school supplies priced at $20 or less
3. An item of school instructional material priced at $20 or less

Items used in a trade or business are not exempt under the sales tax holiday.

1. Clothing and footwear – less than $100 per item (excluding accessories, special clothing or footwear primarily designed for athletic activity or protective use that is not normally worn except when used for athletic activity or protective use, or to the rental of clothing or footwear)

1. School uniforms
2. School materials (school supplies, art supplies, music school supplies, instructional school supplies purchased at retail, and computer storage media, including discs, compact discs and memories (“flash drives”))

1. Clothing and certain clothing accessories (excluding rentals)
2. Footwear (excluding rentals)
3. School supplies
4. Computers, printers and printer supplies and computer software (excludes items used for commercial purposes)
5. Certain bed and bath items

1. Clothing with a sales price of $200 or less
2. School supplies with a sales price of $200 or less
3. School art supplies with a sales price of $200 or less
4. Electronic devices with a sales price of $3000 or less

1. Portable generators – less than $3000 per item
2. Hurricane shutters and emergency ladders – less than $300 per item
3. Other specified emergency preparation supplies – less than $75 per item

1. Energy Star-qualified air conditioners priced at $6,000 or less; refrigerators priced at $2,000 or less; ceiling fans; incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs; dishwashers; dehumidifiers; programmable thermostats; and clothes washers
2. Water-saving products that are used or planted for conserving or retaining groundwater; recharging water tables; or decreasing ambient air temperature, and so limiting water evaporation. Examples: soaker/drip-irrigation hose, a moisture control for sprinkler/irrigation system, mulch, rain barrel, permeable ground cover surface, plants, trees and grasses, water-saving surfactants, soil and compost.

1. Clothing and footwear – less than $100 per item (excluding accessories, athletic or protective clothing, and rentals of clothing or footwear); backpacks used by elementary and secondary students are included
2. Most School Supplies – less than $100 per item

1. Energy Star & WaterSense qualified products – $2,500 or less per item (purchased for noncommercial home or personal use)
2. Clothing and footwear – $100 or less per item
3. School Supplies – $20 or less per item
4. Portable generators (up to $1,000 each)
5. Gas-powered chainsaws (up to $350 each)
6. Chainsaw accessories (up to $60 each)
7. Other hurricane preparedness items (up to $60 each)

Examples of qualifying products include, but are not limited to:

• Face coverings and masks;
• Disinfecting products;
• Gloves;
• Hand sanitizer;
• Temperature-checking devices, and more.

For a full list of qualifying products, click here.

1. An item of clothing priced at $125 or less;
2. An item of school supplies priced $50 or less;
3. An item of school instruction material priced $20 or less;
4. Laptop and tablet computers, not purchased for use in a trade or business, priced at $500 or less; and
5. Sports equipment, not purchased for use in a trade or business, priced at $150 or less