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Back to School Shopping: Sales Tax Holidays and More

29 July 2010

I can’t believe that folks are already talking about back to school… With all of the snow this year, I feel like my kids just got out of school! But my niece is reporting that she’s starting next week (early, I know) and my inbox is filled with emails from Lands End reminding me to [...]

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School Uniforms, Other Expenses Not Deductible

9 September 2009

One of the most popular questions I see around this time of year is whether you can deduct the cost of: school uniforms for public, private or parochial school band uniforms and instruments athletic team uniforms school supplies field trips fill-in-the-blank school expense that is sucking money out of my wallet The short answer is [...]

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School Days, School Days, Spend A Lot of Money Days: School Sales Tax Holidays on the Way

25 July 2008

Earlier this week, I headed off to the store with school supply check list in hand. Boy, how things have changed since I was a kid. Tops on my list? Latex-free erasers. Pencils with latex-free erasers. Pencil sharpener together with Ziploc bag. The list went on and on. Shopping went pretty well until we hit [...]

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