Illinois Sales Tax Holiday Coming for Back-to-School Shopping

If back-to-school procuring is in your to-do checklist, you’ll need to do your self a favor: Mark Aug. 5-14 in your calendar.

That’s the interval that has been designated as a gross sales tax vacation in Illinois by the state’s Division of Income. Which means you should buy many gadgets — not every thing, however the checklist of eligible gadgets is lengthy — at a decreased fee of state gross sales tax. Throughout that interval, the state’s portion of gross sales tax is decreased from 6.25 p.c  to 1.25 p.c. Gadgets embody qualifying clothes and footwear with a retail promoting value of lower than $125 per merchandise and sure faculty provides utilized by college students in the midst of research. College provides aren’t topic to the $125 threshold.

Illinois reportedly is considered one of 18 states that can maintain state tax holidays in 2022.

In line with the Division of Income, eligible gadgets for the decreased tax embody:

CLOTHING

• family and store aprons • athletic supporters • bathing fits and caps • belts and suspenders • coats and jackets • gloves and mittens • hats, caps, and ear muffs • lab coats • neckties • rainwear • rubber pants (covers for material diapers) • scarves • underwear • faculty uniforms • shorts and pants • skirts and attire • hosiery and pantyhose • shirts and blouses

FOOTWEAR

• footwear, sneakers, and shoe laces • sandals • slippers • socks and stockings • footlets • boots and overshoes • insoles for footwear • steel-toed footwear

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

• binders • e-book luggage • calculators • cellophane tape • blackboard chalk • composition books • crayons • coloured pencils • erasers • expandable pocket, plastic, and manila folders • glue, paste, and paste sticks • highlighters • index playing cards and index card bins • authorized pads • lunch bins • markers • notebooks and pocket book paper, together with free leaf pocket book, copy, graph, tracing, manila, coloured and development paper, and poster board • pencils and pencil leads • pens, ink, and ink refills for pens • pencil bins and different faculty provide bins • pencil sharpeners • protractors, rulers, and compasses • scissors • writing tablets

The next gadgets are NOT eligible:

CLOTHING

Any clothes merchandise with a retail promoting value of $125 or extra, and • briefcases • cosmetics • hair notions together with, however not restricted to barrettes, hair bows, and hair nets • purses and wallets • handkerchiefs • jewellery and watches • non-prescription sun shades • umbrellas • wigs and hair items

SPORTS OR RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT

• gloves, together with however not restricted to baseball, bowling, boxing, hockey, and golf gloves • goggles • hand and elbow guards • life preservers and vests • mouth guards • shin guards • shoulder pads • wetsuits

PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

• respiratory masks • clear room attire and tools • ear and listening to protectors • face shields • exhausting hats and helmets • paint or mud respirators • protecting gloves • security glasses and goggles • security and gear belts • welder’s gloves and masks

FOOTWEAR

• ballet, faucet, cleated or spiked athletic footwear • curler and ice skates • ski boots • waders and fins

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Artwork provides • clay and glazes • acrylic, tempera, and oil paints • paintbrushes for paintings • sketch and drawing pads • watercolors

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL

• reference books • reference maps and globes • textbooks and workbooks

COMPUTER AND COMPUTER SUPPLIES

• computer systems and associated provides • flashdrives and different laptop information storage gadgets • information storage media akin to diskettes, and compact disks • bins and instances for disk storage • exterior ports or drives • laptop instances • laptop cables • laptop printers • printer cartridges, toner, and ink

ELECTRONICS

• cameras and associated provides akin to movie and reminiscence playing cards, video cameras, tapes and videotapes • cell telephones • Private Digital Assistants (PDA’s) and handheld digital schedulers