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08/18/2012 02:20 PM

Tax-free weekend eases back-to-school budgets

By: YNN Staff

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Texas students will be headed back to school soon and that means a tax break for parents.

This weekend is the state’s designated “tax-free” weekend, meaning no sales tax is collected on many back-to-school items.

In order to be counted as exempt, each item purchased must be priced under $100. Clothes, backpacks, pens and pencils are all flying off the shelves.

For more information and a list of what is exempt from sales tax this weekend, visit TexasTaxHoliday.org.