Florida’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday starts July 29
This year’s annual Back-to-School “Sales Tax Holiday” has been expanded to 14 days starting Monday, July 29 through Sunday, August 11, 2024.
Parents will get a break from the state’s 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, wallets, and backpacks 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, tablets, monitors, input devices, and non-recreational software 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, flashcards, memory games, puzzle books, search-and-find books, toys intended to teach reading or math skills, and stacking or nesting blocks or sets.
Click here to see all of Florida’s tax holidays and to access PDFs of all the tax-exempt items.
