Florida’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday will run from July 24 to August 6

Great news, parents! This year’s annual Back-to-School “Sales Tax Holiday” has been expanded to 14 days starting Monday, July 24 through Sunday, August 6, 2023. Parents will get a break from the state’s 7.02 percent sales tax representing significant savings for families as the summer break ends and the new school year begins.

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, laptops, monitors 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: calculators, colored pencils, crayons, pens, construction paper, lunch boxes, notebooks, glue, paste, staplers, markers, rulers and scissors.

Examples of learning aids and jigsaw puzzles include electronic or interactive books, flashcards, memory games, puzzle books, and search-and-find books, and toys intended to teach reading or math skills, and stacking or nesting blocks or sets.

The state will hold a second sales tax-holiday in January 2024.  Click here to see all of Florida’s tax holidays and to access PDFs of all the tax-exempt items.

Miami-Dade School Board Chair Maria Teresa Rojas’ proposal to promote this holiday to families was supported by her School Board colleagues at the June 2023 meeting.

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