Tax Free Weekend Ending for Two States

Today is the final day to enjoy tax-free savings in Georgia and Tennessee. Mississippi’s Tax Free Weekend ended yesterday.

Georgia’s Tax Free Weekend details:

The Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget estimates the two-day holiday will save Georgians up to $74.5 million. Under state law, the holiday starts at midnight Friday and will conclude at midnight on July 31. Some of the exempt items include:

Clothing (including footwear) with a sales price of $100 or less per item
Computers, computer components and prewritten software purchased for noncommercial home or personal use with a sales price of $1,000 or less per item
School supplies purchased for noncommercial use with a sales price of $20 or less per item

Full details: Georgia Tax Free Weekend 2016.

Tennessee’s Tax Free Weekend Items List:

2016 tax-free items

Aerobic clothing
Antique clothing (For wear)
Aprons/clothing shields
Athletic socks
Baby clothes
Baby diapers
Baby receiving blankets
Backpacks
Bandanas
Bathing suits
Belts
Bibs
Binders
Blackboard chalk
Blouses
Book Bags
Boots, general purpose (Winter, dress, cowboy hiking)
Bow ties
Bowling shirts
Bras
Bridal gowns and veils
Calculators
Camp clothing
Caps
Cellophane tape
Chalk
Chef uniforms
Choir and altar clothing
Clay
Clerical Vestments
Clothing
Coats
Compasses
Composition Books
Computers, notebooks, laptops and tablets ($1,500 or less. Includes CPU and other bundled components such as speakers, monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables and basic software
Corsets and corset lace
Costumes, including novelty children’s costumes
Coveralls
Cowboy boots
Crayons
Diapers (Adult and baby, cloth or disposable)
Dress gloves and shoes
Dresses
Ear muffs
Erasers
Folders (Expandable, pocket, plastic and manila)
Formal clothing
Galoshes
Garters/garter belts
Girdles
Glazes
Gloves
Glue, paste and paste sticks
Golf clothing (Caps, dresses, shirts, skirts and pants)
Graduation caps and gowns
Gym suits and uniforms
Hats, general purpose: cowboy, baseball, knit
Highlighters
Hiking boots
Hooded shirts and sweatshirts
Hosiery
Index card boxes
Index cards
Jackets
Jeans
Jerseys
Jogging Apparel
Jogging bras
Knitted caps and hats
Lab coats
Leather clothing
Leg warmers
Legal pads
Leotards
Lingerie
Lunch boxes
Markers
Mittens
Neckties
Neckwear (Including ties and scarves)
Nightgowns and night shirts
Notebooks
Overalls
Overshoes and rubber shoes
Paints, acrylic, tempora and oil
Pajamas
Pants
Paper (Loose leaf ruled notebook, copy, graph, tracing, manila and colored paper, poster board and construction paper)
Pencil boxes
Pencil sharpeners
Pencils
Pens
Ponchos
Poster board
Prom dresses
Protractors
Raincoats, rain hats and ponchos
Religious clothing
Robes
Rubber thongs, flip-flops
Rulers
Running shoes, without cleats
Sandals
Scarves
School art supplies (Clay and glazes, Acrylic, tempora and oil paints), paintbrushes for artwork, sketch and drawing pads and watercolors)
School supplies ($100 or less per item)
School supply boxes
School uniforms
Scissors
Scout uniforms
Shawls and wraps
Shirts
Scout uniforms
Shawls and wraps
Shirts
Shoe inserts
Shoe laces
Shoes
Shorts
Ski masks
Ski suits
Slacks
Sleepwear, nightgowns, pajamas
Slippers
Slips
Sneakers
Socks (Including athletic)
Stockings
Suits, slacks, jackets and sport coats
Support hose
Suspenders
Sweat suits
Sweaters
Sweatshirts
Swimsuits
tablet computer
Tennis skirts, dresses, shoes
Thongs
Textbooks
Ties/Neckwear
Tights
Trousers
T-shirts
Tuxedos, purchased
Undergarments, including longjohns
Underwear
Uniforms (Athletic or non-athletic)
Veils
Vests,except hunting and water
Walking shoes
Watercolors
Wedding gowns
Windbreakers
Workbooks
Writing tablets

Taxable items

Belt buckles
Belts, tool
Boots, ski
Breathing masks
Bridal apparel, other than gowns or veils
Briefcases
Cell phones, including smart phones
Clothing accessories or equipment
Computer software
Computer storage media (Jump drives, Diskettes, CDs, DVDs, handheld electronic schedulers, PDAs, computer printers and print supplies, printer paper)
Cosmetics
Electronic readers
Electronic schedulers
Emblems
Fabric
Face shiels
Fins, swim
Glasses, safety
Globes
Gloves, protective or welders’
Gloves, sports
Goggles, safety
Goggles, sports
Guards, sports hand, elbow, mouth, shin
Hair Notions
Handbags
Hard hats
Hearing protectors
Helmets
Jewelry
Leased items
maps
Paintbrushes not used for artwork
Paints not defined as school art supplies
Patches
Protective equipment (Items for human wear and designed as protection of the
wearer against injury or disease or as protections against
damage or injury of other persons or property, but not
suitable for general use.)
Reference books
Reference maps
Rented items
Respirators, paint or dust
School instructional material (Reference books, maps and globes not including textbooks and workbooks)
Sewing equipment and supplies
Shoes, ballet or tap
Shoes, cleated or spiked
Shoulder pads for dresses, jackets, etc.
Shoulder pads for sports
Skates, roller and ice
Ski boots
Skin diving suits
Smart phones
Sport or recreational equipment
Sunglasses
Telephones
Tool belts
Trade or business, items used in
Umbrellas
Video game consoles
Wallets
Watches
Welders’ gloves
Wetsuits
Yarn
Zippers

Items subject to limits on amount and transaction, full story: Tennessee Tax Free Weekend 2016.

Many state tax free weekends coming up for next weekend, stay tuned to Free Tax Weekend for all of your updates.