Back to school sales tax holiday kicks off

Parents can take advantage of a second school tax holiday through Jan. 14. 

The tax free holiday includes items such as clothing; footwear; certain accessories under $100 per item; school supplies under $50 per item; learning aids and jigsaw puzzels under $30 per item; personal computer, laptops, monitors and certain computer related accessorites with a sales price of $1,500 or less. 

Computer items must be purchased for noncommercial home or personal use and some of the included school supplies are calculators; colored pencils; crayons; pens; construction paper; lunch boxes; notebooks; glue; paste; staplers; markers; rulers and scissors. 

Learning aids and jigsaw puzzles included are electionic or interactive books; flashcards; memory games; puzzle books; search and find books; toys intended to teach reading or math skills and stacking or nestiblocks or sets. 

An expanded list of items can be found here.