Sales Tax Holiday This Weekend

There will be a two-day sales tax holiday this weekend of Aug. 11 and 12 from the state's 6.25 percent sales tax.

Excluded from the tax holiday are restaurant meals, cars, motorboats, tobacco and any item that costs more than $2,500. 

Massachusetts was one of 17 states in the country to offer a sales tax holiday in 2011, according to Forbes. With the exception of 2009, the state has held a tax holiday every summer for the past nine years.