The annual Texas Sales Tax Holiday has arrived for your last-minute back-to-school needs.
This year’s sales tax holiday begins Friday, Aug. 9, and goes through midnight Sunday, Aug. 11.
The sales tax exemption applies only to qualifying items you buy during the sales tax holiday. Items you buy before or after the sales tax holiday do not qualify for exemption, and there is no tax refund available.
And while most take advantage of getting back-to-school items tax free over the weekend, there are some surprising items included on the list that you might not know about.
Here’s a list of items you can get tax free this weekend:
- Adult diapers and baby diapers (both cloth and disposable)
- Aprons (household)
- Baby bibs and baby clothes
- Baseball caps
- Belts with attached buckles (but not buckles by themselves)
- Bow ties (as well as neckties and other neck wear)
- Bowling shirts
- Coats and wraps (earmuffs and scarves, too)
- Chef uniforms
- Children’s novelty costumes
- Fishing caps and fishing vests
- Football and baseball jerseys
- Golf clothes
- Hunting vests
- Masks, costumes
- Nightgowns and nightshirts
- Painter pants
- Pajamas
- Prescription sunglasses
- Raincoats and ponchos (and rain hats)
- Robes
- Safety shoes
- Sandals and slippers
- Scout uniforms
- Shawls and wraps
- Suits, slacks, and jackets
- Support hosiery
- Suspenders
- Uniforms (employee, school, work, nurse, waitress, military, postal, police, fire — but not rented uniforms)
For more on items included in the tax-free weekend, click here
*note- each item must be priced $100 or less for it to be tax-free
