There won't be a back-to-school sales tax holiday in New Jersey this year after lawmakers repealed the break just two years after enacting it.
PARAMUS , N.J. -- New Jersey lawmakers repealed the state's annual back-to-school sales holiday just two years after it was enacted. The 10-day tax holiday was enacted in 2022 to help residents save money on school supplies, computers, and sport or recreational equipment. It was popular, but expensive. Officials said the state will save about $35 million per year by ending the tax holiday. Democratic lawmakers in Trenton sponsored a bill to repeal the tax holiday earlier this year.
'Why would they do that?' Joslyn, whose daughter is about to start 1st grade, was out back-to-school shopping at Staples in Park Ridge on Friday. She's trying to get a head start. 'Because I usually do like the last week of August, and then everything's priced up, too. So I was like, let me buy it now,' she told CBS News New York.Ten miles south at Target in Paramus, Kat Martinez was helping her niece buy dorm room essentials for her sophomore year at Rutgers.
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