KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s annual Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday starts Friday, Aug. 1, and ends at midnight on Sunday, Aug. 3.
Throughout the weekend, certain purchases – such as school supplies, computers, clothing and other qualifying items, as defined by state statute – are exempt from all state and local sales tax.
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The following items will be free of sales tax during the weekend:
Clothing that does not have a taxable value of more than $100.
Eligible clothing items include any article of apparel intended to be worn on the body, including footwear and diapers for infants or adults.
Not included are watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands or belt buckles
School supplies utilized for instructional purposes in a typical classroom that cost no more than $50 per purchase.
School supplies include paper, writing instruments, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, chalk, maps, globes, handheld calculators, graphing calculators that do not have a taxable value of more than $150, and computer software that does not have a taxable value of more than $350.
Not included are watches, radios, CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable or desktop phones, copiers or other office equipment, or furniture
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Personal computers under $1,500 and computer accessories that cost less than $1,500.
A personal computer can be a laptop, desktop, or tower computer system, consisting of a central processing unit, random access memory, a storage drive, a display monitor, and a keyboard.
Peripheral devices include items such as a disk drive, memory module, compact disc drive, daughterboard, digitizer, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, multimedia speaker, printer, scanner, single-user hardware, single-user operating system, sound card, or video card.
In addition to state sales tax, local sales tax will also be waived in all cities, counties, and special tax districts. Anyone making these qualified purchases will receive the tax waiver.
For more information, visit the website for the Missouri Department of Revenue.
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