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Home • Back to School

Back-to-School Tax Holidays: Is Your State Helping You Save?

Sixteen states are offering a sales-tax-free holiday on select back-to-school items. Is your state on this list? How much do you actually save?
By Lauren Porter · Updated December 6, 2020
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Just before back-to-school time, department and chain stores are packed with proud parents and grandparents with school attendees of all ages raking up on supplies of all kinds.

Across the U.S., sixteen states participate in the sales-tax-free holidays on clothes, school supplies, footwear and computers. 

But just how much can you save and when? This video breaks it down!

TOPICS:  Back To College Education Taxes