Texas to launch its tax-free weekend ...
19.08.09
The annual event, which starts with transactions at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ends midnight Sunday, provides consumers with tax support on selected clothing, shoes, backpacks and other goods priced below $100.
Catalog sales and knowledgeable online purchases from vendors who must collect Texas sales tax are eligible for the tax break as lengthy as the sale is accepted - and paid for - within the weekend. In addition, some layaway purchases would qualify, if the patron pays off the layaway bill during the weekend.
"Traditionally, this was our biggest weekend of the year, and back-to-school weekend was B," said Mack Seeton, manager of the JCPenney store in South Plains Mall. "Based on our circumstance, we have an idea about how this is going to go, but that's about all."
When the practice started in 1999, the Legislature made the first weekend in August the tax-free weekend, leaving a gap of at least one weekend before back-to-sect weekend.
Last year, the tax-free and back-to-school weekends came back-to-back.
Source: LubbockOnline.com