Comments on: Retailers Push For 2011 Back-To-School Tax Holiday http://www.northescambia.com/2011/02/retailers-push-for-2011-back-to-school-tax-holiday Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NOT IN THE SOUTH http://www.northescambia.com/2011/02/retailers-push-for-2011-back-to-school-tax-holiday/comment-page-1#comment-75872 NOT IN THE SOUTH Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:10:25 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=45800#comment-75872 Last year I had already purchased my first graders school supplies and clothes before the tax break. If I remember correctly Alabama had theirs the week before school started. Have it at least a month before school starts. Last year I had already purchased my first graders school supplies and clothes before the tax break. If I remember correctly Alabama had theirs the week before school started. Have it at least a month before school starts.

]]> By: barrineau http://www.northescambia.com/2011/02/retailers-push-for-2011-back-to-school-tax-holiday/comment-page-1#comment-75674 barrineau Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:38:48 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=45800#comment-75674 I wish they would bring it back ,it does take a little of the economic bite out of back to school shopping. And to be honest I am probably more inclined to buy something else with the savings. I wish they would bring it back ,it does take a little of the economic bite out of back to school shopping. And to be honest I am probably more inclined to buy something else with the savings.

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2011/02/retailers-push-for-2011-back-to-school-tax-holiday/comment-page-1#comment-75673 David Huie Green Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:35:38 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=45800#comment-75673 REGARDING: "new study showing that last year’s three-day relief period actually put $7 million extra into state coffers. "The Washington Economics Group reported that during the Aug. 13-15 holiday during which sales taxes weren’t collected on certain school-related items, people bought a whole lot of other things not covered by the tax holiday." ??????? so if you don't charge taxes, you take in more taxes ?????????? Not that I want to pay taxes (or die, despite the claim we have to do both), but I have to wonder if perhaps the sales of the other items wouldn't have happened with or without the tax holiday. Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure. David contemplating the inevitable REGARDING:
“new study showing that last year’s three-day relief period actually put $7 million extra into state coffers.

“The Washington Economics Group reported that during the Aug. 13-15 holiday during which sales taxes weren’t collected on certain school-related items, people bought a whole lot of other things not covered by the tax holiday.”

??????? so if you don’t charge taxes, you take in more taxes ??????????

Not that I want to pay taxes (or die, despite the claim we have to do both), but I have to wonder if perhaps the sales of the other items wouldn’t have happened with or without the tax holiday.

Figures don’t lie, but liars sure can figure.

David contemplating the inevitable

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