Sikeston, Missouri - One of area retailers’ busiest times of the year is coming soon—Back-to-School shopping accompanied by Missouri’s Tax-Free Weekend starting at 12:01am Friday August 4th and will run through Sunday August 6th.
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Missouri - The annual Sales Tax Holiday is set for Friday, August 4th, Saturday, August 5th, and Sunday, August 6th in Stoddard County.
On these particular days certain back-to-school items such as clothing, school supplies, computers, and various other needed items are exempt from sales tax.
The sales tax holiday applies to state and local sales taxes when a local jurisdiction chooses to participate. However some local jurisdictions choose to not participate in the holiday.
If one or all of your local taxing jurisdictions are not participating in the sales tax holiday, the state's portion of the tax rate (4.255%) will remain exempt for the sale of qualifying sales tax holiday items.
The sales tax exemption is limited to:
1. Clothing - any article having a taxable value of less than $100. (a fur coat valued at $250 would not fit in this category)
2. School supplies - not to exceed $50 per purchase (if you are buying for three children, you might want to get your spouse to go through the line or come back more than one time to get your items)
3. Computer software - taxable value of $350 or less.
4. Personal computers - not to exceed $1,500.
5. Computer peripheral devices - not to exceed $1,500.
6. Graphing Calculators - not to exceed $150.
Please note:
Clothing is defined as any article of wearing apparel, including footwear, intended to be worn on or about the human body. That does not include watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands, or belt buckles.
School supplies are defined as any item normally used by students in a standard classroom for education proposes, including but not limited to, textbooks, notebooks, paper, writing instruments, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, handheld calculators, chalk, maps, and globes. The term shall NOT include watches, radios, CD Players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable or desktop telephones, copiers or other office equipment, furniture, or fixtures.
Link to cities NOT participating; therefore you will pay the city sales tax! Click HERE.
Link to counties NOT participating; therefore you will pay the county sales tax! Click HERE. Stoddard is NOT participating.
