New Mexico’s annual tax-free weekend for back-to-school shopping ran from July 31 to Aug. 2, KOAT reports. The state suspended collection of the gross receipts tax on qualifying sales during those three days.
Shoes and clothing qualified if priced under $100 per item. Desktop, laptop, tablet and notebook computers qualified up to $1,000. Computer hardware qualified up to $500. School supplies had to cost less than $30 per item.
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Other rules apply to what counts as tax-exempt. The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department publishes the full list of qualifying items.
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Daily Reports is Brant.One’s news roundup. Each day we gather the New Mexico stories worth knowing from newsrooms across the state, sum them up and point you to the source. This one comes from KOAT’s reporting, and their original story has the interviews and full details.
Editor’s note: Updated Oct. 31, 2026. This story is now part of Daily Reports, our New Mexico news roundup, and was revised to credit KOAT’s original reporting. Learn how Daily Reports works in our editorial standards.
