Missouri sales tax free holiday starts Friday

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - It is the week many parents and students wait for. Starting Friday, the Missouri Sales Tax Free weekend begins.

Even before the weekend, people are saving money because of summer specials.

Those deals, coupled with the tax free holiday weekend means shopping centers like Zona Rosa in the Northland will be packed with shoppers.

“Last year for that 3 day weekend we had close to 85-90-thousand people,” said Rosemary Salerno, General Manager of Zona Rosa.

The three day sales tax holiday weekend begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ends at midnight on Sunday.

Here is the list of items that are included in the tax free holiday shopping.

• Clothing – any article having a taxable value of $100 or less
• School supplies – not to exceed $50 per purchase
• Computer software – taxable value of $350 or less
• Personal computers – not to exceed $3,500
• Computer peripheral devices – not to exceed $3,500

The good thing, you do not have to live in Missouri to take advantage.

Anyone from Kansas can travel across the state line to cash in on the savings.

Many cities are also dropping their sales tax during this weekend.

Not every city is participating in the sales tax free holiday weekend.

Some including North Kansas City, Platte City and Riverside among several others have opted out.

For a list of cities not taking part, click here .

Below is a list of what the state defines of certain items that are part of the sales tax free holiday weekend.

“Clothing” - any article of wearing apparel, including footwear, intended to be worn on or about the human body. The term shall include but not be limited to cloth and other material used to make school uniforms or other school clothing. Items normally sold in pairs shall not be separated to qualify for the exemption. The term shall not include watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands, or belt buckles.

“School supplies” - any item normally used by students in a standard classroom for educational purposes, including but not limited to, textbooks, notebooks, paper, writing instruments, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, handheld calculators, chalk, maps, and globes. The term shall not include watches, radios, CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable or desktop telephones, copiers or other office equipment, furniture, or fixtures. School supplies shall also include computer software having a taxable value of three hundred fifty dollars or less.

“Personal computers” - a laptop, desktop, or tower computer system which consists of a central processing unit, random access memory, a storage drive, a display monitor, and a keyboard and devices designed for use in conjunction with a personal computer, such as a disk drive, memory module, compact disk drive, daughterboard, digitalizer, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, multimedia speaker, printer, scanner, single-user hardware, single-user operating system, soundcard, or video card.