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Arizona: Does the state have a sales-tax-free weekend?
No tax-free period
Arizona has no sales tax holiday; its transaction privilege tax applies year-round with no tax-free period found.
Arizona's general sales tax is called the transaction privilege tax. The state's list of retail exemptions has no holiday or tax-free weekend, only permanent exemptions and a few multi-year ones. This answer is an inference from the absence of any holiday in the law, not from a statement that says so.
What the law says
The retail classification is comprised of the business of selling tangible personal property at retail.
Sources
- A.R.S. 42-5061 (retail classification; exemptions) Official · azleg.gov
- Arizona Department of Revenue: Transaction Privilege Tax Official · azdor.gov
Confirm with the state
- Agency
- Arizona Department of Revenue
- Phone
- (602) 255-3381
- Website
- azdor.gov
How bordering states compare
- California No tax-free period Needs confirmationCalifornia has no sales tax holiday; its official list of sales tax exemptions includes no tax-free period.
- Colorado No tax-free periodColorado has no state sales tax holiday; back-to-school holiday bills failed in 2024 and 2026.
- Nevada No tax-free periodNo. Nevada has no sales tax holiday for the public; only National Guard members get a tax-free Nevada Day weekend.
- New Mexico Has a tax-free periodNew Mexico holds an annual back-to-school gross receipts tax holiday over a weekend in late July or early August.
- Utah No tax-free periodUtah has a statewide sales tax but no sales tax holiday.