Hacienda announces the IVU-exempt days for uniforms and school supplies

On July 9, 2026, NotiCel reports that the secretary of the Department of the Treasury, Ángel L. Pantoja Rodríguez, announced the sales periods for uniforms and school supplies exempt from the Sales and Use Tax. The first will be Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18. The second, for the semester that begins in January, will be Friday, January 8 and Saturday, January 9, 2027. NotiCel names the secretary that way. This magazine copies that page.

"The first period will be in July and will begin at midnight on the 17th, concluding at 11:59 at night on July 18," Ángel L. Pantoja Rodríguez said. He urged merchants to be ready. The exempt items, according to Circular Letter RI 26-11 that the outlet cites, are limited to uniforms and school supplies. All printed books and electronic books are exempt from the IVU throughout the year, as are notebooks bought at retail. The school uniform, Hacienda clarifies, is the attire specifically required by the institution and that cannot be used generally outside school. It does not include belt buckles sold separately, masks, patches unless they are part of the uniform, sewing materials, briefcases, cosmetics, protective equipment, or generic athletic footwear. The school supplies of the period include, among others, folders, a school backpack, a calculator, adhesive tape, chalk, a compass, crayons, erasers, and computer storage media. NotiCel publishes a longer list on the page. This note neither invents it nor exhausts it.

These July and January days are not the school-holiday IVU extension that the Board rejected. This desk already has that kernel, dated July 14, 2026: the Financial Oversight Board rejected extending the school recess tied to the IVU. A two-weekend calendar announced on the 9th and a rejection of an extension on the 14th are two acts, two URLs. They are not collapsed. The reader who wants Circular Letter RI 26-11 has the NotiCel URL at the foot.

Source: NotiCel. https://noticel.com/ultima-hora/20260709/hacienda-anuncia-dias-exentos-del-ivu-en-compra-de-uniformes-y-materiales-escolares/