This sales tax holiday begins on Monday, July 29, 2024, and ends on Sunday, August 11, 2024.
What is included in the tax exemption:
- Clothing, footwear, and certain accessories with a sales price of $100 or less per item **Clothing refers to any article of wearing apparel, including all types of footwear, except for skis, swim fins, rollerblades, and skates. It does not include accessories such as watches, watchbands, jewelry, umbrellas, or handkerchiefs.***
- Certain school supplies with a sales price of $50 or less per item. **School supplies include pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, notebooks, notebook filler paper, legal pads, binders, lunch boxes, construction paper, markers, folders, poster board, composition books, poster paper, scissors, cellophane tape, glue, paste, rulers, computer disks, staplers and staples for securing paper products, protractors, and compasses.**
- Learning aids and jigsaw puzzles with a sales price of $30 or less.**Learning aids include flashcards, memory games, puzzle books, search-and-find books, interactive or electronic books and toys for teaching reading or math skills, and stacking or nesting blocks or sets. Examples of tax-exempt learning aids are items priced at $30 or less each.**
- Personal computers and certain computer-related accessories with a sales price of $1,500 or less,
when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use
This sales tax holiday does not apply to:
- Any item of clothing selling for more than $100; Any school supply item selling for more than $50
- Books that are not otherwise exempt
- Learning aids and jigsaw puzzles with a sales price of more than $30
- Computers and computer-related accessories purchased for more than $1.500 or that are for commercial purposes
- Rentals or leases of any eligible items
- Repairs or alterations of any eligible items
- Sales of any eligible items in a theme park, entertainment complex, public lodging establishment, or airport.
Online Purchases
Items purchased online are tax-exempt if the order is accepted by the company during the sales tax holiday for immediate shipment, even if the delivery occurs after the holiday ends. Online retailers like Amazon participate in state sales tax holidays. However, Amazon clarifies on its website that tax may still be applied to certain items that do not qualify, such as items over a specific price threshold, bundles, or specific items excluded from the holiday.
To see the full list of items on the Florida Department of Revenue click HERE
