Back To School Tax Breaks

[jeffrey]

A dozen states are temporarily eliminating sales tax for the back-to-school shopping season, according to CCH Tax and Accounting.

"Tax holidays have endured over the past several years even when many states found themselves strapped for revenues," Ken Traisman, state tax analyst for CCH, said in a press release.

According to CCH, Massachusetts is offering its first tax holiday this year, and Florida, which had dropped its holiday, has reinstated it... [read more at [url=http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/30/pf/taxfree_shopping/index.htm]money.cnn.com]]

States that are eliminating the sales tax include Connecticut (Aug. 15 - 21), Florida (July 24 - Aug. 1), Georgia (July 29 - Aug. 1), Iowa (Aug. 6 - 7), Massachusetts (Aug. 14), Missouri (Aug. 13 - 15), New York (Aug. 31 - Sept. 6), North Carolina (Aug. 6 - 8), South Carolina (Aug. 6 - 8), Texas (Aug. 6 - 8), Vermont (Aug. 7 - 9 and Oct. 9 - 11) and West Virginia (Aug. 6 - 8).