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Wondering how you’ll pay for the mounting school supplies, band uniforms, and shoes your kids seem to need each year?

Thanks to North Carolina Democrats shoppers will get a weekend pass on state and local sales taxes on clothing, computers, and other school supplies. The state’s sixth annual sales tax holiday starts at 12:01 a.m. on Friday and ends at 11:59 p.m. Sunday.

The sales tax holiday was enacted by the Democratic General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Mike Easley in 2001.

For more information on the sales tax holiday or for an all-inclusive list of items that qualify as “school supplies” for the purposes of the sales tax holiday, go to the state Department of Revenue’s Web site at: http://www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/salestax_holiday.html

List of Items Exempt During the Sales Tax Holiday