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Your chance to save cash is right around the corner. Beginning Thursday, you will not have to pay sales tax in the state on a wide range of items that will get you outdoors. It’s the first “Freedom Week” part of a tax package signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May. You can buy kayaks, bikes, camping gear; even bug spray will not be taxed. People told us they will grab their carts and gear up for the outdoors ad spend some special time with their families — grills for your cookout, coolers to head to the beach with, fishing supplies, water gear and sunscreen, you name it, everything you ne...

SHARE FLORIDA — This year, statewide sales tax holidays in the Sunshine State are for more than such essentials as school supplies and hurricane preparedness items. As the state reopens, residents are being encouraged in various ways to help kick Florida’s economy back into high gear. The state legislature has created Freedom Week as part of that encouragement, and also as a way to help give a leg up to its arts, live entertainment, culture, sports and hobby industries — some of the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. What You Need To Know Florida's statewide Freedom Week tax holi...

View Comments Juneteenth is the annual commemoration of June 19, 1865, the date that enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Since then the occasion has been marked in a variety of ways from somber remembrances to joyous celebrations. In Arizona, the holiday has been celebrated since the early 1900s. There have been large events such as the annual celebration at Phoenix's Eastlake Park that drew an estimated 20,000 people as well as smaller neighborhood events. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

Families receive child tax credit letters: The dates you will receive payments By FOX 35 News Staff Published  (Photo by Alexander Mils/Pexels) ORLANDO, Fla. - Families across the United States who are eligible for the upcoming monthly Child Tax Credit payments have started to receive letters from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the expected monthly payments. Payments will officially begin on July 15. Low- and middle-income parents can expect to receive $3,000 for every child ages 6 to 17 and $3,600 for every child under age 6. The expanded amounts are tapered off once income hits $...

The state started the hurricane season tax holiday in 2014. Normally it runs for seven days, but this year, it ran for ten.