Shop tax-free this weekend
Published 10:14 pm Thursday, August 1, 2019
Virginians can shop ‘til they drop — tax-free — this weekend for school supplies, clothing, hurricane and emergency preparedness items and Energy Star and WaterSense products.
The sales tax holiday runs Friday through Sunday and includes a number of qualifying items that anyone can purchase without paying the state sales tax.
Below is a partial list of items — some of the items you may not think about — that are exempt from sales tax this weekend. For the full list or more information, visit tax.virginia.gov.
- Clothing and footwear — sales price of $100 or less per item
- Aprons
- Baby bibs, clothes and receiving blankets
- Bathing suits
- Choir and altar clothing
- Clerical vestments
- Coats and jackets
- Costumes
- Diapers for children and adults, including disposables
- Formal wear
- Gym suits and uniforms
- Hosiery
- Insoles and inserts for shoes
- Lab coats
- Neckwear, including neckties and scarves
- Nightgowns and pajamas
- Steel-toed shoes
- Wedding apparel, including veils
School supplies — sales price $20 or less per item
- Binders
- Bookbags, messenger bags and totes
- Calculators
- Clay and glazes
- Compasses
- Composition books
- Computer storage media
- Crayons
- Dictionaries and thesauruses
- Disinfectant wipes
- Erasers
- Glue
- Hand sanitizer soap
- Highlighters
- Lunch boxes and lunch bags
- Markers
- Musical instruments, accessories and replacement items
- Paint and paintbrushes
- Paper, many kinds including loose leaf, printer, graph, construction paper and posterboard
- Pencil boxes
- Pencils and pens
- Reference books, maps and globes
- Textbooks
- Tissues
Hurricane preparedness items — sales price $1,000 or less
- Portable generators and generator power cords
- Inverters and inverter power cables
- Photovoltaic devices that generate electricity
Chainsaws with sales price of $350 or less and chainsaw accessories with sales price of $60 or less. Chainsaw accessories include:
- Chains
- Motor oil
- Lubricants
- Carrying cases
- Safety apparel
- Repair parts
Hurricane preparedness items — sales price $60 or less
- Artificial ice and ice packs
- Batteries, excluding automobile or boat batteries
- Any portable, battery-operated or self-powered light source
- Portable, battery-operated or self-powered radios
- Two-way radios
- Weather band radios and NOAA weather radios
- Tarps, plastic sheeting and plastic drop clothes
- Carbon monoxide and smoke detectors
- Fire extinguishers
- Bottled water
- Manual can openers
- Cellphone chargers
- Storm shutter devices
- First aid kits
Energy Star and WaterSense items — sales price $2,500 or less
- Air conditioners
- Ceiling fans
- Dehumidifiers
- Washing machines
- Dishwashers
- Light bulbs
- Refrigerators
- Bathroom sink faucets
- Faucet accessories
- Showerheads
- Toilets
- Urinals
- Landscape irrigation controllers