The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Sales Tax Holiday, Here’s What You Need To Know

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit liberal think tank, calls such holidays an “outdated gimmick.”

Dylan Grundman, a senior policy analyst for the institute, argued in a news release that the brief holiday periods don’t reduce taxes for low- and moderate-income families the rest of the year. He pointed to a lack of personal income taxes in Florida, along with a reliance on sales tax, as resulting in regressive tax systems. Read more