{"id":345408,"date":"2026-07-19T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:52:10","slug":"back-to-school-tax-holiday-starts-monday-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345408\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-school tax holiday starts Monday in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s annual back-to-school sales tax holiday starts Monday<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The annual back-to-school sales tax holiday starts on Monday, giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school-related items without paying sales tax.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">During this period, sales tax will be waived on specific items if they meet price requirements. Clothing, footwear, wallets, backpacks, and other bags are tax-free if they cost $100 or less per item.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Additionally, computers priced at $1,500 or less, when purchased for personal use, are also included in the tax exemption. School supplies are eligible for the tax holiday as well.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The sales tax holiday runs through August 20.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s annual back-to-school sales tax holiday starts Monday FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The annual back-to-school sales tax holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-345408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}