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Hurricane sales tax holiday starts June 1.
Byline: Karen-Janine Cohen
May 27--Recently Mario and Julie Cote were at the Hollywood Home Depot, picking up light fixtures and a countertop to finish a remodeling project at their Hollywood home. But they may return for batteries when the hurricane sales tax holiday kicks off.
Running from June 1 through June 12, the holiday lets Floridians buy a basketful of hurricane preparation items ranging from coolers to lower-cost generators that will be shorn of their state and local option sales taxes. Earlier this year, state lawmakers passed -- and Gov. Jeb Bush signed -- legislation to enact the hurricane preparedness sales tax holiday, to encourage state ...
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