TARBORO —
It’s the season for back-to-school shopping and next weekend, North Carolinians buying back-to-school supplies will receive a sales tax exemption on those items. The sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 Friday morning and ends at 11:59 Sunday night.
The holiday gives a break on the state sales tax generally collected at the point of purchase.
Maxway, a discount store on North Main Street in Tarboro, offers “anything a child would need for school,” according to Assistant Store Manager Steve Joyner. Composition books and notebook paper have been reduced to 67 cents. Other back-to-school items the store sells are school uniforms, backpacks, pens, pencils, and hand sanitizer. Maxway will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 12 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Parents and children in search of a personalized lunch box, book bag, tote bag or dorm-room laundry bag can head to Caroline’s Creations & Unique Gifts on North Main Street. Store owner Caroline Craft offers monogramming for virtually every item in her store. She said her lunchboxes are a popular back-to-school item because they are insulated. Caroline’s will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on tax-free weekend.
Right next door to Caroline’s is Roberson & Dupree Shoe Store, offering casual, dress and tennis shoes for men, women and children. Select items will be on sale during the tax-free weekend.
Shoppers in need of school uniforms will find them at Tony’s Limited Men’s Shop Inc. on North Saint Andrew Street. CitiTrends, located just across the road from Tony’s, sells school uniforms, as well as children’s clothing and backpacks.
According to the North Carolina Department of Revenue, the items that will be exempt from the state’s 5.75 percent sales tax during the holiday are as follows:
Clothing, footwear, and school supplies of $100 or less per item
School instructional materials of $300 or less per item (for example, reference books, reference maps and globes, textbooks and workbooks)
Sports and recreational equipment of $50 or less per item
Computers of $3,500 or less per item and computer supplies of $250 or less per item
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Corbett/Chasse Wedding
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MATTIE RUTH BULLOCK
BELVOIR — Mrs. Mattie Ruth Bullock, 81, passed away on Saturday, May 18, 2013. The funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wilson.
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