BOSTON (AP) — The state Legislature has approved an economic development bill that includes a two-day sales tax holiday.
The measure passed by lawmakers on Tuesday would exempt most items from the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax on the weekend of Aug. 11 and Aug. 12.
Restaurant meals, tobacco and single items that cost more than $2,500 would still be taxed.
The sales tax holiday was attached to a 115-page bill filed Monday night by a House-Senate conference committee.
The bill calls for an array of measures aimed at creating new jobs.
Dropped from the compromise measure was an earlier Senate proposal to extend the state’s 5-cent bottle deposit law to plastic water bottles and other non-carbonated beverages.
