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The holiday begins August 3^rd and is a time for shoppers in the state to save money on computers, clothes and school supplies.

This year, the three-day holiday begins at midnight on Friday, August 3rd, and runs through Sunday, August 5th.

During this time period, the state's 4.225% sales tax will not be assessed on certain purchases.

The state sales tax will not be charged on the following items during the holiday:

*Clothing that does not have a value of more than $100. Eligible clothing includes standard items of apparel worn on or about the body, and includes footwear. It also includes material to make school uniforms or other school clothing. It does not include accessories such as watches, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands and belt buckles.

*School supplies, not exceeding $50 per purchase, that are used in a standard classroom for educational purposes. School supplies include textbooks, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, hand-held calculators, chalk, maps and globes. School supplies do not include CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable telephones, copiers or other office equipment.

*Personal computers that don't cost more than $3,500 and computer peripheral devices that don't exceed $3,500. A personal computer can be a laptop, desktop or tower computer system which consists of a central processing unit, random access memory, a storage drive, display monitor, keyboard and other related devices. Peripheral devices include items such as a disk drive, memory module, CD drive, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, speakers, printer, scanner, sound card or video card. Computer software is considered a school supply and is free from sales tax if its value is less than $350.

Although anyone making qualified purchases does not have to be a student to benefit from the holiday, the sales tax exemption event is commonly referred to as the back-to-school sales tax holiday because it occurs near the beginning of the traditional school year for most students.

For more information in the holiday visit:

http://dor.mo.gov/tax/business/sales/taxholiday/school/.