Iowa
Iowa tax-free holiday runs through August 3
Back-to-school shopping in Iowa will make a little less impact on wallets through midnight Saturday.
Iowa’s Annual Sales Tax Holiday is underway. Stores that sell clothes and shoes are required to take sales tax off applicable items:
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No sales tax or local option sales tax will be collected on sales of an article of clothing or footwear having a selling price less than $100.00
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The exemption does not apply in any way to the price of an item selling for $100.00 or more
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The exemption applies to each article priced under $100.00 regardless of how many items are sold on the same invoice to a customer
‘Clothing’ does not include the following items:
The tax-free holiday runs Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3.
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Semi-truck crash causes Iowa power outage impacting hundreds
TAMA COUNTY, Iowa — A pair of power outages left more than 700 people without power in Tama County Friday afternoon.
Alliant Energy says the larger outage, just north of Garwin, was caused by a semi-truck striking one of their power poles. That outages impacted 690 customers as of 5 p.m. Friday.
The smaller outage impacted roughly 36 people in Tama. The outage was caused by equipment needing repairs.
Alliant says crews are on site and working to fix both outages.
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Iowa Great Lakes businessman Butch Parks dies at 81
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) – The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina.
He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.
Parks established the marina on East Lake Okoboji in 1983, growing it from a small fishing boat operation into a business with marinas, sales, service, rentals, storage, and popular destinations like the Barefoot Bar.
Parks and his wife, Debbie, also owned Okoboji Boat Works for 23 years.
Funeral services are set for Friday, Jan. 16, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Spirit Lake. It will be followed by a celebration of life at Snapper’s restaurant in Okoboji that evening.
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