FLORIDA – The school sales tax holiday begins Monday, July 25 in Florida, and lasts until August 7. Many items can be bought without paying both the state sales tax and any voter-approved additional taxes.
This is a list of what you can buy, compiled by our partners at the Herald-Tribune.
Clothing and Accessories
- Aerobic and fitness clothing
- Aprons and clothing shields
- Athletic supporters
- Baby clothes
- Backpacks and book bags
- Bandanas
- Barrettes and bobby pins
- Bathing suits, caps, and cover-ups
- Baseball cleats
- Belts
- Belt buckles
- Bibs
- Bicycle helmets (youth)
- Blouses
- Boots (except ski/fishing boots)
- Bow ties
- Braces and supports worn to correct or alleviate a physical incapacity or injury
- Bras
- Choir, altar clothing
- Cleated and spiked shoes
- Clerical vestments
- Coats
- Coin purses
- Costumes
- Coveralls
- Diaper bags
- Diapers, diaper inserts (adult and baby, cloth or disposable)
- Dresses
- Fanny packs
- Fishing vests (non-flotation)
- Formal clothing (purchased)
- Gloves
- Dress (purchased)
- Garden – Leather – Work
- Graduation caps and gowns
- Gym suits and uniforms
- Hairnets, bows, clips and hairbands,
- Handbags
- Hunting vests
- Jackets
- Jeans
- Lab coats
- Leggings, tights, and leg warmers
- Leotards
- Lingerie
- Martial arts attire
- Neckwear
- Overshoes and rubber shoes
- Pants
- Ponytail holders
- Purses
- Raincoats, rain hats and ponchos
- Receiving blankets
- Religious clothing
- Robes
- Safety clothing
- Safety shoes
- Scarves
- Scout uniforms
- Shawls and wraps
- Shirts
- Shoe inserts and insoles
- Shoes (including athletic)
- Shoulder pads (e.g., dresses or jackets)
- Shorts
- Ski suits (snow)
- Skirts
- Sleepwear (nightgowns and pajamas)
- Slippers
- Slips
- Socks
- Suits, slacks, and jackets
- Suspenders
- Sweatbands
- Sweaters
- Swimsuits and trunks
- Ties (neck and bow)
- Tuxedos (purchased)
- Underclothes
- Uniforms (work, school and athletic, excluding pads)
- Vests
- Wallets
School Supplies
- Binders
- Calculators
- Cellophane (transparent) tape
- Colored pencils
- Compasses
- Composition books
- Computer disks (blank CDs only)
- Construction paper
- Crayons
- Erasers
- Folders
- Glue (stick and liquid)
- Highlighters
- Legal pads
- Lunch boxes
- Markers
- Notebook filler paper
- Notebooks
- Paste
- Pencils, including mechanical and refills
- Pens, including felt, ballpoint, fountain, highlighters and refills
- Poster board
- Poster paper
- Protractors
- Rulers
- Scissors
- Staplers and staples (used to secure paper products)
Computers and accessories
- Cables (for computers)
- Car adaptors (for laptop computers)
- Central processing units (CPU)
- Compact disk drives
- Computers for noncommercial home or personal use – Desktop – Laptop – Tablet
- Computer batteries
- Computer towers consisting of a central processing unit, random-access memory and a storage drive
- Data storage devices (excludes those devices designed for use in digital cameras or other taxable items)
- Diskettes
- Flash drives
- Jump drives
- Memory cards
- Portable hard drives
- Storage drives
- Thumb drives
- Zip drives
- Docking stations (for computers)
- Electronic book readers
- Hard drives
- Headphones (including “earbuds”)
- Ink cartridges (for computer printers)
- Keyboards (for computers)
- Mice (mouse devices)
- Microphones (for computers)
- Modems
- Monitors (except devices that include a television tuner)
- Motherboards
- Personal digital assistant devices (except cellular telephones)
- Port replicators
- Printer cartridges
- Printers (including “all-in-one” models)
- RAM (random access memory)
- Routers
- Scanners
- Software (nonrecreational) – Antivirus – Database – Educational – Financial – Word processing
- Speakers (for computers) • Storage drives (for computers)
- Tablets
- Web camera