Florida’s Back-to-School Tax-Free Holiday Will Run from July 25 to August 7

No Florida sales tax or local option tax will be collected during this time on the sale of the following items:

•       Clothing, footwear, and certain accessories with a sales price of $100 or less per item*

•       Certain school supplies with a sales price of $50 or less per item

•       Learning aids and jigsaw puzzles with a sales price of $30 or less*

•       Personal computers and certain computer-related accessories with a sales price of $1,500 or less, when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use

Among the allowed school supplies are the following: binders, calculators, colored pencils, crayons, pens, construction paper, lunch boxes, notebook filler paper, glue, paste, poster paper, rulers and scissors.

Examples of taxable school supplies include: correction tape, fluid or pens; masking tape; printer and computer paper; staplers and staples.

Click here to see Florida’s tax holidays and to access PDFs of all the tax-exempt items.

Miami-Dade School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman’s proposal to promote this holiday to families was supported by her School Board colleagues at the June 2022 meeting.

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