The National Retail Federation’s annual back-to-school spending survey says families with kindergarten through 12th-grade students expect to spend an average of $630.36 on electronics, apparel and other school needs.
Legislation passed in 2018 means Ohioans won’t have to pay sales tax on purchases of clothing and footwear priced at up to $75 per item, as well as school supplies and instructional materials priced at up to $20 per item. This year the sales tax holiday begins Friday, August 7, 2020 at 12:00 am and runs through Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 11:59 pm
During the holiday, the following items are exempt from sales and use tax:
An item of clothing priced at $75 or less;
An item of school supplies priced at $20 or less:
School supplies” include only the following items: binders; book bags; calculators; cellophane tape; blackboard chalk; compasses; composition books; crayons; erasers; folders (expandable, pocket, plastic, and manila); glue, paste, and paste sticks; highlighters; index cards; index card boxes; legal pads; lunch boxes; markers; notebooks; paper; loose leaf ruled notebook paper, copy paper, graph paper, tracing paper, manila paper, colored paper, poster board, and construction paper; pencil boxes and other school supply boxes; pencil sharpeners; pencils; pens; protractors; rulers; scissors; and writing tablets.
An item of school instructional material priced at $20 or less.
For example: reference books, reference maps and globes, textbooks, and workbooks.
There is no limit on the amount of the total purchase.
