{"id":10618,"date":"2019-08-09T19:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:04:58","slug":"tax-free-holiday-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"Tax Free Holiday This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10619\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10619\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/backpacks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/backpacks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/backpacks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/backpacks-405x304.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/backpacks-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and consumers alike can take advantage of savings for back to school items during the Texas Tax Free Holiday which is scheduled for August 9 through 11, 2019. Photo by: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paying No Sales Tax Means Back To School Savings<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Get your vehicles or your feet ready and get to your favorite general merchandise store this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The annual sales tax holiday will start Friday, Aug. 9 and goes through midnight Sunday, Aug 11.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative allows people to buy most clothing, footwear, backpacks and an array of school supplies without having to pay the sales tax of 8.25 percent on every dollar spent.<\/p>\n<p>The state tax is 6.25 percent but the state allows a city to collect an additional 2 percent as most cities in Texas do today.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday was implemented in 1999 to help parents save just before the start of a new school year.<\/p>\n<p>It allows shoppers to save taxes on any single item worth up to $100 and it can be combined with other purchases.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a pair of tennis shoes worth $60 and a back pack worth $20 equals $100, resulting in a net savings of $8.25.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers can make purchases either in a store, online or from a catalog seller doing business in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day shopping holiday applies to qualifying items such as clothing, footwear and backpacks.<\/p>\n<p>Residents from La Feria and its surrounding areas will most likely shop for qualifying free sales tax merchandise at Rio Grande Valley<\/p>\n<p>Premium Outlet Mall in Mercedes, in Weslaco, Harlingen and in McAllen this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10620\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shoes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shoes-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying No Sales Tax Means Back To School Savings by Tony Vindell\/LFN Get your vehicles or your feet ready and get to your favorite general merchandise store this weekend. The annual sales tax holiday will start Friday, Aug. 9 and goes through midnight Sunday, Aug 11. The initiative allows people to buy most clothing, footwear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10621,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/10621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}