The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts would like to remind all retailers that sunscreen items became exempt from sales and use tax as of June 18, 2012.
The timing coincides with an FDA ruling establishing labeling and testing requirements for over-the-counter sunscreen products.
For more information, check out Sunsetting the Sales Tax on Sunscreen.
By Lucinda Rowlands, Zip2Tax
Sweetgrass baskets are among the items that will remain sales tax exempt in South Carolina for at least 5 more years.
The House Ways and Means Committee on April 25, 2012 approved a bill eliminating 22 exemptions, after putting about a dozen back on the exemption list. The bill initially eliminated exemptions worth more than $250 million. The amended bill reduces that to roughly $15 million.
Items put back on the exemption list included:
The committee also reinstated two sales-tax-free weekends: gun sales on Thanksgiving weekend, and back-to-school supplies the first weekend of August.
Representatives said the bill was basically pushed through committee as quickly as possible because the deadline for moving bills from one chamber to the other was rapidly approaching.
Rep. Tommy Stringer said one vital part of the bill remains intact, the part requiring sales tax exemptions to be re-evaluated every five years helps ensure outdated exemptions don’t stay on the books.
House Minority Leader Harry Ott said the items left in the bill are there because no one spoke up to keep those exemptions.
