Tax Free Weekend 2025

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TN Tax Exempt for School Supplies, Clothing, and Computers

When is the tax holiday?

  • It begins the last Friday in July each year at 12:01 am and ends at 11:59 pm the following Sunday

Who can buy tax-exempt school supplies?

  • Anyone (not just students) can buy school supplies that qualify.

What’s tax-exempt?

  • School and art supplies with a purchase price of $100 or less per item, such as binders, backpacks, crayons, paper, pens, pencils, and rulers
  • Art supplies such as glazes, clay, paints, drawing pads, and artist paint brushes.
  • Items that are normally sold together cannot be split up to stay beneath the $100 threshold.

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