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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66155</law_id><section_number>58.1-611.2</section_number><catch_line>Limited exemption for certain school supplies, clothing, and footwear</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-625</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Retail Sales and Use Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Beginning in 2015, and ending July 1, 2022, for a three-day period that begins each year on the first Friday in August and ends at 11:59 p.m. on the following Sunday, the tax imposed by this chapter or pursuant to the authority granted in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="To what extent and under what conditions cities and counties may levy local sales taxes; collection thereof by Commonwealth and return of revenue to each city or county entitled thereto" href="/58.1-605/">58.1-605</a> or <a class="law" title="To what extent and under what conditions cities and counties may levy local use tax; collection thereof by Commonwealth and return of revenues to the cities and counties" href="/58.1-606/">58.1-606</a> shall not apply to certain (i) school supplies, including, but not limited to, dictionaries, notebooks, pens, pencils, notebook paper, and calculators, and (ii) clothing and footwear designed to be worn on or about the human body. The tax exemption shall apply to each article of school supplies with a selling price of $20 or less, and each article of clothing or footwear with a selling price of $100 or less. Any discount, coupon, or other credit offered either by the <span class="dictionary">retailer</span> or by a vendor of the <span class="dictionary">retailer</span> to reduce the final price to the customer shall be taken into account in determining the selling price for purposes of this exemption.
		The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall develop guidelines that describe the items of merchandise that qualify for the exemption and make such guidelines available, both electronically and in hard copy, no later than July 15 of each year.</p></section></text><history>2006, cc. 579, 593; 2015, c. 382; 2017, cc. 26, 446.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
