This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you can purchase school supplies and clothing in Virginia without paying sales tax.

What’s Exempt: During this three-day period, purchases of qualifying school supplies selling for $20 or less per item, and purchases of qualifying clothing and footwear selling for $100 or less per item will be exempt from sales tax. Retailers may also choose to absorb the tax on other items during the holiday period, but they are responsible for paying the tax on those items to the Department of Taxation.

Complete list of what counts and what doesn’t

Look for retailers running big back-to-school discounts in concurrence with the tax holiday. The tax savings alone (5%) isn’t that great a deal, but makes for a nice bonus when shopping end-of-summer clearance for clothes, for instance.