The 2006 Florida Legislature enacted and the Governor approved a tax-free period directing that:
No sales tax shall be collected on sales of books, clothing, wallets, or bags, including handbags, backpacks, fanny packs, and diaper bags, but excluding briefcases, suitcases, and other garment bags, having a selling price of $50 or less, or on sales of certain school supplies having a selling price of $10 or less, during the last nine days of July 2006. Clothing means any article of wearing apparel, including all footwear, except skis, swim fins, roller blades, and skates, intended to be worn on or about the human body. Clothing does not include watches, watchbands, jewelry, umbrellas, handkerchiefs, or sporting equipment. Book means a set of printed sheets bound together and published in a volume. The term book does not include newspapers, magazines, other periodicals, or audio books. School supplies means pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, notebooks, notebook filler paper, legal pads, composition books, poster paper, scissors, cellophane tape, glue or paste, rulers, computer disks, protractors, compasses. See supply list for Branford Elementary School students Page 2B.
Jasper News
July 19, 2006
Sales tax holiday begins Saturday
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- Third grade FCAT 2.0 reading and math results to be released today
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60th Annual Folk Fest starts Friday
“Nowhere else can you get such a complete experience, a real big wonderful slice of the Florida cultural pie.”
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Top candidate for SRWMD executive director named
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Hamilton correctional officer arrested for child pornography
- Jennings man involved in 6 car fatal crash in Gainesville
- Three dead from crash on I-75 in Hamilton County
- Forestry officials fighting fire in Hamilton County
- Smoke advisory issued
- Head-on crash claims life of Jasper man
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Letter Carriers Food Drive is May 12
Saturday, May 12 is the Letter Carriers Food Drive. Put your non-perishable donation in a bag by your mailbox.
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