Back-to-school Fla. sales tax holiday starts
By Annie Greenberg
Associated Press Writer / August 13, 2010
Associated Press Writer / August 13, 2010
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SUNRISE, Fla.—Francesca Tillem took the day off from work Friday to shop during Florida's back-to-school sales tax holiday, pushing a huge shopping cart alongside her two daughters.
"I'm getting everything today. I got here at 10 a.m. and will stay here until they close," Tillem, 45, said at Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise.
"I have to get polos for their school uniforms, sneakers, shoes, underwear, everything," she said of her shopping experience with her children, who will be starting the sixth and eighth grades.
The tax break, which started at 12:01 a.m. Friday and runs through midnight Sunday, lifts the state's 6 percent sales tax on many school supplies priced les
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