School supplies now included in 2009 sales tax holiday - San Antonio Business Journal:

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In the past, tax-free purchases have been limited toschool backpacks, clothing and shoes. Now, school suppliews priced less than $100 will be exempt from statre and local sales tax forthe tax-frese weekend of Aug. 21-23, 2009. Pens, crayons, calculators, notebooks, scissors and lunch boxes are a few of the items onthe “A lot of families look forwars to saving their hard earned monehy during the sales tax holiday weekend,” Susann Combs says.
“Now they can make their back-to-school budgets stretch even further because more than two dozen school supply items willbe Lay-away plans can be used this year to take advantage of the tax holiday, the Comptroller’s office Texas’ combined state and local sales tax is 8.25 percent. That means qualifying purchases made during the tax holiday will resuly in a savings ofabout $8 on every $100 A full list of tax-free school supplies can be founcd at this . Consumers also can follow the Texaz Comptroller’s office on Twitter @txcomptroller.