When is Texas tax-free weekend 2025? Here are the dates and qualified items
As much as kids don’t want to go back to school, the new school year is fast approaching. That means back-to-school shopping and saving a little money on the Texas sales tax holiday.
Texas’ tax-free weekend is Aug 8-10, 2025, which is a Friday through Sunday.
You can buy clothing, backpacks and various school supplies without paying sales tax, as long as the items are less than $100.
Parents can purchase up to 10 backpacks, including those that have wheels, and messenger bags.
Items can be purchased in stores, online, by telephone or by catalog through midnight Sunday, Aug. 10. For those buying online, the sale must be complete, and all charges must go through to the payment processor by the deadline to be exempt.
One thing parents and kids should keep in mind is that the tax exemption does not include accessories like handbags, wallets, watches, jewelry, purses, briefcases and luggage. Also, you can’t buy computers, software or textbooks tax-free.
Shipping, delivery and handling charges are part of the sales price with a $100 cap, so keep that in mind. For example, if you order a pair of jeans for $95 with a $10 delivery charge, the total price is $105, which means it won’t be tax-free.
List of some qualifying items for Texas tax-free weekend:
- Clothes
- Shoes
- Jackets
- Sports jerseys
- Gym suits and uniforms
- Face masks, cloth and disposable
- Scout uniforms
- Suits and slacks
- Uniforms (school, work, nurse, chef, waitress, military, postal, police, fire)
- Fishing and hunting vests
- Work clothes and coveralls
- Camp clothes
- Hats and caps (baseball, fishing, golf)
- Children’s novelty costumes
Parents can use their child’s school supply lists to purchase items that cost less than $100, such as composition books, crayons, pencils, calculators, erasers and more.
For parents who want to skip the chaos of the store, back-to-school kits are exempt even if they have a mix of taxable and exempt items, if the value of the exempt items are more than the taxable ones.
A full list of everything that’s tax-free (or not) is on the Texas Comptroller’s website.