Tax Free Weekend begins Friday

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The annual tax free weekend officially started for Texas shoppers at 12:01 a.m. Friday. For the next three days state and local taxes will be waived on items like clothes, shoes and backpacks priced under $100.
“This year we are estimating that Texas shoppers are going to save about $87 million, and this has been going on since 1999, and since that time Texas shoppers have saved over $1 billion in state and local sales tax,” says Chris Bryan, a spokesman for the