{"id":260432,"date":"2026-08-06T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:20:14","slug":"delaware-tax-free-shopping-offers-back-to-school-savings-for-pa-nj-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260432\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Tax-Free Shopping Offers Back-to-School Savings for Pa., NJ Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back-to-school shopping is in full swing across <a href=\"https:\/\/925xtu.com\/tag\/Philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/925xtu.com\/tag\/new-jersey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Jersey<\/a>. For many families, traveling over state borders to Delaware allows moms and dads to rein in spending.<\/p>\n<p>While Pennsylvania and New Jersey exempt clothing and footwear from state sales taxes year-round, most other back-to-school items, including laptops and calculators, have higher taxes on them in these states \u2014 Philadelphia at about 8% and New Jersey at 6.625%.<\/p>\n<p>Delaware&#8217;s year-round no-sales-tax policy can yield savings on electronics, graphing calculators, and bulk supplies when purchased there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/back-to-school-shopping-is-worth-trip-delaware-philly-nj-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to a FOX29 News report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To maximize overall savings, experts recommend splitting shopping lists to minimize fuel and toll costs. A practical strategy is to make a single trip to Delaware \u2014 such as to Christiana Mall in Newark \u2014 for electronics and bulk items. According to FOX29, this strategy could allow a family to save approximately $100 to $150 in taxes and potentially offset travel costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wwl\/news\/local\/back-to-school-supply-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WWL-TV observed<\/a> that, overall, the average \u201cschool supply list costs about 34% more than it did 10 years ago.\u201c That increase \u201cworks out to roughly 3% to 4% per year over the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back-to-school shopping is in full swing across Philadelphia and South Jersey. For many families, traveling over state borders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-260432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}