North Carolina’s fifth annual sales tax holiday is this weekend — 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 4, until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6.
All North Carolinians are encouraged to take advantage of the savings on school supplies, clothes and computers, while also supporting our local businesses.
The sales tax holiday, now in its fifth year, will allow customers to purchase certain items without paying state and local sales tax.
Shoppers this weekend will not pay sales tax on clothes and footwear costing less than $100 per item; school supplies such as pens, pencils, paper, notebooks, textbooks, book bags, lunch bags, encyclopedias, dictionaries and calculators costing less than $100 per item; sports and recreation equipment costing $50 or less per item; athletic and non-athletic uniforms costing $100 or less per item; cycling items such as shoes, shirts and gloves costing $100 or less per item; and computers including the central processing unit, monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers totaling less than $3,500.
The sales tax holiday was enacted by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Easley in 2001.
For more information on the sales tax holiday or for an all-inclusive list of items that qualify as “school supplies” for the purposes of the sales tax holiday, go to the N.C. Department of Revenue’s web site at: www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/salestax_holiday.html.
Editor’s Note: We thank Rep. Michael Wray and his staff for this reminder.