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Sales Tax Holiday briefly lessens the sting from recent hikes
Temporary tax-free weekend extended to help families prepare for school year
Ohio families recently had the opportunity to ease the $3 million on almost $47 million worth of back-to-
pain of Republican-led sales tax hikes through the school purchases. That good news will continue next
second-ever sales tax-free holiday August 5-7. The year and hopefully for many years to come under
temporary tax-free holiday covered bipartisan legislation, House Bill 89,
many back-to-school items, including pending in the Ohio House.
clothing, school supplies and
instructional materials. Though I believe Ohio should rebalance
taxes to grow our economy and make
Not only did temporary holiday help taxes fair for working people, families
offset Ohios 4.5 percent sales tax and businesses, I am optimistic that
increase enacted by the 2013 state passing a permanent sales-tax holiday
budget, but for three days shoppers paid would help lessen the sting of recent
no sales tax on itemized purchases as increases on goods and services.
they prepared their children for the
coming of the new school year.
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The first sales tax holiday was introduced in 2015 and,
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according to an analysis1 conducted by the University Holiday-2015-Final-003.pdf
of Cincinnatis Economic Center, saved consumers over