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Tax-Free Shopping Week Begins Sunday

The tax-free week allows for shoppers to stock up on basic clothes and shoes in time for the new school year.

Parents will be able to take full advantage of back-to-school sales starting Sunday, when a tax-free shopping week begins across Maryland.

Known as Shop Maryland Week, the tax-free week is a time when apparel and footwear purchases at $100 or less are exempt from the 6 percent Maryland sales tax.

The list of tax-free items includes shirts, pants, dresses, underwear, boots and shoes.

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This was a measure of a special session in 2007 that was created to help boost sales in the state and to get shoppers into bricks-and-mortar stores instead of using the Internet to shop.

This year is the first time Maryland has offered tax-free shopping for an entire week since 2001. There was another five-day tax exemption in 2006.

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Another tax-free three-day weekend is planned for Feb. 19  to Feb. 21, 2011, when the sales and use tax will not apply to the sale of Energy Star products or solar water heaters.


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