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Tax Free Weekend in Some States Benefits Apple Back-to-School Customers

Tax Free Weekend in Some States Benefits Apple Back-to-School Customers

by , 3:45 PM EDT, August 1st, 2008

Some states have a tax free weekend for specific back-to-school items. Apple customers in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, New Mexico North Carolina and Tennessee could benefit from a new, tax free Mac this weekend.

The limits vary by state. For example, the limit in Alabama for a computer is US$750, but North Carolina allows $3,500.

Typically, the Apple store concierge will have a paper handout describing what items are tax free and the exemption limits.

In some states the tax free dates are already in progress, and for most the dates are Aug 1-3, 2008 for computers.

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Close Name:sumtermug Posts: 14 Joined: 06 Jun 2005
Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:57 pm Subject: Charleston, SC, as well

South Carolina is participating in the tax-free weekend, as well. And since there is now an Apple store in Charleston, SC, those of us in SC can join in the savings!


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Close Name:Guest
Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:11 pm Subject: Tax Free Weekend

Here is an interesting trick my husband and I found in the local newspaper. A Mac dealer (MacAuthority) advertised 17" MacBook Pros at $1499 (just under the tax free $1500 limit). This is the slightly older 2.4 model. The catch was that you had to purchase the 4 gig memory upgrade for $399 at the same time effectively making the price of the computer $1898 which we thought was still a pretty good price. Since the Apple Online Store offers the same unit (refurbed) at the same price but with only 2 gig memory and the Apple Store would still need to charge the tax (which is about 9.5%), the MacAuthority offer was pretty attractive. We got one as soon as we could. If you are on the fence, jump on this one. We really were looking to get a Pro soon. They still had a fair stock when we were there around noon Saturday.


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Close Name:gslusher Posts: 2088 Joined: 13 Nov 2002
Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:52 pm Subject:

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Guest wrote:
Here is an interesting trick my husband and I found in the local newspaper. A Mac dealer (MacAuthority) advertised 17" MacBook Pros at $1499 (just under the tax free $1500 limit).


Of course, since you don't say just WHERE this Mac dealer is, your information is nearly useless.


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