Sales Tax Holiday for PC Purchases in Certain U.S. States this Weekend

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If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee or South Carolina and are looking to buy a notebook -- do it this weekend and you won't pay any sales tax on it. Online retailers such as Dell are participating as well.

I don't know about you, but when you find a great deal on a notebook for $1,000 and then get to the register and remember about that 7% sales tax that gets added (amount varies depending on the state and locality) it's a bit of a downer. But for those of you in eight lucky states in the Southern U.S. this weekend that price you see stamped on a laptop in the store is the price you'll pay at the register (bless it).

Below is a table of the states that are participating and the dollar limit. Remember, these discounts are geared towards consumers only, especially back to school shoppers. If you're buying a laptop for business purposes then it is still subject to tax. Here's the list of lucky states:

State	Dates	Dollar Limit
Alabama (Some local jurisdictions are not participating)	August 3-5, 2007	$750
Georgia	August 2-5, 2007	$1,500
Louisiana (Applies to 4% state sales tax)	August 3-4, 2007	$2,500
Missouri	August 3-5, 2007	?
New Mexico	August 3-5, 2007	$1,000
North Carolina	August 3-5, 2007	$3,500
Tennessee	April 27-29, 2007;  August 3-5, 2007	$1,500
South Carolina	August 3-5, 2007	?

Of course retail stores located within these states honor the sales tax break, but you might be happy to know Dell is also honoring the tax break for online purchases made this weekend.

 

One of the good perks for living in Tennessee !!!!!

 

They need to do this sort of thing more often and in more states! Sales tax is a huge pain on big ticket purchases.

 

A complete pain in Washington, nearly 10% gets tacked on as tax. On most notebooks, its well over $120.... A pity that we don't have this tax-free weekend here....

 

I thought Virginia was doing this also... Maybe not for notebooks

 

Missouri is also, atleast at my college they are - university of missouri


they sell all dell laptops and macbooks/MBP's

 

A lot of states do this for clothing items and such, but it's a little more rare to see it in on PC purchases.

Also worth thinking about is if you live within 50 miles of a border for a state that does this and your state government are tax-mongers and don't cut you a break, just drive across the state lines to make a purchase.

 

I just noticed thread after I bought http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-P...84836/catOid/-12963/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

I was wondering why it didn't add up the tax

 

These tax-free weekends are more towards students and school purchases. I almost wish I waited to grab my 1520 now, but then I wouldn't of had my notebook until at least a month after school starts, which is definitely not worth the wait.

 

As stated MO does this. It started on Friday and is good on notebooks. The local city (some of them) also drops their tax.

 

I live about 3 hours from Delaware, which has no sales tax of any kind. It's definitely great for big purchases like a TV or computer.

 

Why is that most of the states are in the south or southeast?

Does that mean it is POOR? ha!

 

Nope! The government thinks our taxes are too high, so they throw in a tax free day in the spring and in the fall!

 

You forgot Florida and its a week long ,no sales tax for school supplies.

 

Great for those state to think about its citizen.

Also nice of Dell to do this!

 

Virginia is doing a tax free weekend as well, however the items you can get tax free are limited to school supplies priced under $20 and clothing priced under $100. Even though that is the case, many stores in Virginia such as Best Buy are covering the tax, so lots of items are tax free anyway depending on where you shop.