Get your school-supply lists ready for Tennessee's tax-free weekend

Shoppers can find tax-free deals on school clothes and supplies at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Ala., this weekend. Alabama's sales tax holiday takes effect at midnight Friday, Aug. 5, and lasts through midnight Sunday, Aug. 7.
Shoppers can find tax-free deals on school clothes and supplies at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Ala., this weekend. Alabama's sales tax holiday takes effect at midnight Friday, Aug. 5, and lasts through midnight Sunday, Aug. 7.

Want to go back to school with some bucks in your pocket? Then take advantage of this weekend's sales tax holiday to fill school-supply lists, buy backpacks and school uniform apparel.

Tennessee's 2019 tax-free weekend begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 26, and continues through Sunday, July 28, at 11:59 p.m.

What items are tax-free?

» Clothing marked $100 or less. For example: shirts, pants, jackets, socks, shoes, dresses.

» School supplies and art supplies with a purchase price of $100 or less per item.

» Computers with a purchase price of $1,500 or less. This includes laptops as well as tablets. Computers must be for personal, not business, use.

Technology that is not included: cellphones/smart phones, video-game consoles, computer parts such as keyboards and monitors not sold with a CPU, electronic readers, computer printers, flash drives and compact discs.

For more information: https://www.tn.gov/revenue/taxes/sales-and-use-tax/sales-tax-holiday.html.

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