This Coming Weekend is Louisiana’s Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday

Hello Louisiana friends, we'll have the opportunity to stock up on flashlights, batteries, generators and other storm-related items sales tax free on Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and 27.

Louisiana's annual Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday, which exempts a laundry list of storm items from the 4 percent state sales tax.

Flashlights and radios are among the items that will cost less during the hurricane preparedness sales tax holiday.

The holiday, now in its fifth year, is held each year on the last Saturday and Sunday of May and is timed to precede the June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season.

[NOLA.com]