It's that time of year again-- the Missouri statewide sales tax holiday! It's a great opportunity to save some cash as you prepare your family to head back to school.
From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight on Sunday, certain back-to-school purchases, such as school supplies, computers and clothes won't be charged sales tax.
These are the items that will be tax-exempt:
- Clothing – any article having a taxable value of $100 or less
- School supplies – not to exceed $50 per purchase
- Computer software – taxable value of $350 or less
- Personal computers (including tablets & iPads) – not to exceed $1,500
- Computer peripheral devices – not to exceed $1,500
- Graphing Calculators - not to exceed $150
Some of the items that WILL NOT be tax-exempt this weekend include cell phones, digital cameras, watches, headphones, furniture, CDs, DVDs, batteries or jewelry.
While there won't be state sales tax this weekend, dozens of cities and counties in the state have opted out of the tax-free holiday, so you will still be required to pay their local sales taxes. The state's portion of the sales tax is 4.225%.
City sales tax will still be collected on the sale of qualifying holiday items in these cities:
Alton
Ash Grove
Ashland
Battlefield
Bellerive Acres
Berkeley
Beverly Hills
Black Jack
Blackwater
Bland
Bloomfield
Bolivar
Boonville
Branson
Brentwood
Bridgeton
Byrnes Mill
Cabool
California
Camdenton
Canton
Cape Girardeau
Carl Junction
Carthage
Cassville
Centertown
Chamois
Charlack
Chillicothe
Claycomo
Clayton
Collins
Columbia
Cool Valley
Crestwood
Crystal City
Des Peres
Desloge
DeSoto
Doniphan
Edmundson
Eldon
Eldorado Springs
Ellisville
Ellsinore
Elsberry
Everton
Fair Grove
Farmington
Fayette
Ferguson
Festus
Flint Hill
Freeman
Fremont Hills
Frontenac
Garden City
Gerald
Glasgow
Granby
Grandin
Grant City
Green City
Greendale
Half Way
Hartville
Hawk Point
Higginsville
Hollister
Holts Summit
Houston
Ironton
Jane
Jefferson City
Joplin
Kingdom City
Kirkwood
Koshkonong
Ladue
Laurie
Leadington
Liberal
Licking
Loma Linda
Malden
Manchester
Maplewood
Marble Hill
Marceline
Marlborough Village
Marshfield
Marthasville
Merriam Woods Village
Meta
Moberly
Monett
Montgomery City
Moscow Mills
Mount Vernon
Mountain Grove
Naylor
Neosho
New Haven
New Madrid
New Melle
Nixa
Noel
Norborne
Northwoods
Oakland
Osage Beach
Overland
Owensville
Ozark
Palmyra
Paris
Pattonsburg
Peculiar
Pevely
Platte Woods
Poplar Bluff
Purdy
Qulin
Reeds Spring
Richmond Heights
Riverside
Rock Hill
Rockaway Beach
Savannah
Sedalia
Seligman
Shelbina
Shrewsbury
Skidmore
Smithton
Smithville
Springfield
St Ann
St Elizabeth
St Mary
St Peters
Ste Genevieve
Stockton
Sugar Creek
Taos
Thayer
Town & Country
Trenton
Twin Oaks
University City
Urich
Vandalia
Velda
Walnut Grove
Warson Woods
Washburn
Waynesville
Webster Groves
West Plains
Willard
Willow Springs
