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This Weekend’s Sales-Tax Holiday – Fool’s Gold?, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Austin American-Statesman

  

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Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

August 4, 2006

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Beginning Friday and continuing throughout the weekend, you won’t be charged sales tax when you buy clothes or shoes that cost less than $100. Dazzled by the opportunity to avoid paying taxes, long lines of people will converge on malls across Texas. But will you really save any money this weekend?