{"id":27019,"date":"2016-04-23T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27019"},"modified":"2016-04-23T13:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T18:12:51","slug":"reminder-emergency-preparation-supplies-sales-tax-holiday-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27019","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today starts the <a href=\"http:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/taxinfo\/taxpubs\/tx98_1017.html\">Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday<\/a> the Texas legislature passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>The following items qualify:<\/p>\n<p><b>Less than $3000<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Portable generators<\/li>\n<p><b>Less than $300<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Hurricane shutters\n<li>Emergency ladders<\/li>\n<p><b>Less than $75<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Batteries, single or multipack (AAA cell, AA cell, C cell, D cell, 6 volt or 9 volt)\n<li>First aid kits\n<li>Fuel containers\n<li>Ground anchor systems and tie-down kits\n<li>Hatchets\n<li>Axes\n<li>Mobile telephone batteries and mobile telephone chargers\n<li>Nonelectric coolers and ice chests for food storage\n<li>Nonelectric can openers\n<li>Portable self-powered light sources (hand cranked flashlights)\n<li>Portable self-powered radios, including two-way and weather band radios\n<li>Reusable and artificial ice products\n<li>Smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors\n<li>Tarps and other plastic sheeting<\/li>\n<p>The sales tax holiday lasts through Monday. At the very least make this your weekend to buy batteries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today starts the Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday the Texas legislature passed last year. The following items qualify: Less than $3000 Portable generators Less than $300 Hurricane shutters Emergency ladders Less than $75 Batteries, single or multipack (AAA cell, AA cell, C cell, D cell, 6 volt or 9 volt) First aid kits Fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1729,2861],"class_list":["post-27019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","tag-sales-tax-holiday","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27028,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27019\/revisions\/27028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}