This weekend, Massachusetts is offering shoppers a break with many retail items exempt from a usual sales tax on Saturday and Sunday.

For residents like Hannah Puckett, a shopper in Watertown, the timing couldn't be better. "Times are tough right now and everyone is trying to save money," she said.

Ryan Kearney, General Counsel for the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, "The sales tax holiday suspends the 6.25% sales tax on goods in Massachusetts as long as those goods are tangible."

What items are ineligible?

According to Mass.gov , the following items are ineligible for the sales tax discount:

Meals

Motor vehicles

Motorboats

Telecommunications services

Gas

Steam

Electricity

Tobacco products

Marijuana or marijuana products

Alcoholic beverages, and

Any single ite

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