{"id":105584,"date":"2026-01-20T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105584\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:07:07","slug":"this-day-in-history-first-sales-tax-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105584\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: First sales tax holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; This week in 1997, shoppers in New York were enticed into stores with the promise of no sales tax on clothing purchases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The goal was to give retailers a boost and compete with New Jersey, which had no tax on clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The success of the event in New York led many other states to launch their own sales tax holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York and Vermont have both since eliminated sales taxes on most clothing items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Hampshire, of course, does not have any kind of sales tax. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; This week in 1997, shoppers in New York were enticed into stores with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,12,47912,1634,1631],"class_list":{"0":"post-105584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-this-day-in-history","13":"tag-vermont","14":"tag-wcax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}