{"id":24201,"date":"2013-08-08T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=24201"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:29:38","slug":"sales-tax-holiday-tax-free-weekend-august-9-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/sales-tax-holiday-tax-free-weekend-august-9-11-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Tax Holiday \/ Tax-Free Weekend August 9-11, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>Sales Tax Holiday \/ Tax-Free Weekend<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAugust 9 &#8211; 11, 2013\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSenate Bill 485 (83rd Regular Legislative Session, 2013) sets August&nbsp;9-11, 2013 as the dates of this year&rsquo;s annual Sales Tax Holiday. As in previous years, the law exempts most clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks priced under $100 from sales and use taxes, which could save shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSubject to the criteria explained below, all sales of qualifying items made during the holiday period qualify for the exemption, including items sold online, or by telephone or mail. Lay-away plans can be used again this year to take advantage of the sales tax holiday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe dates for the sales tax holiday are set by the Legislature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSOURCE:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.window.state.tx.us\/taxinfo\/taxpubs\/taxholiday\/d\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.window.state.tx.us\/taxinfo\/taxpubs\/taxholiday\/d\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales Tax Holiday \/ Tax-Free Weekend August 9 &#8211; 11, 2013 Senate Bill 485 (83rd Regular Legislative Session, 2013) sets August&nbsp;9-11, 2013 as the dates of this year&rsquo;s annual Sales Tax Holiday. As in previous years, the law exempts most&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/sales-tax-holiday-tax-free-weekend-august-9-11-2013\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[260,3777,719,19536,718,17],"class_list":["post-24201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-holiday","tag-legislature","tag-sales-tax-holiday","tag-senate-bill-485","tag-tax-free","tag-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-6il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31587,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/state-of-texas-tax-free-weekend-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":24201,"position":0},"title":"State of Texas: Tax Free Weekend 2015","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"August 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Sales Tax Holiday August 7 - 9, 2015 This year\u2019s Sales Tax Holiday is August 7 - 9, 2015. 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