# Weekly World News=tax exempt?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-tax-exempt/84732>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-tax-exempt/84732 "2001-10-01T06:52:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheLochNessHump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TheLochNessHump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLochNessHump)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-tax-exempt/84732/1 "2001-10-01T06:52:18Z")

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When I was trained in as a cashier, one of my superiors made it clear that tabloids like WWN and NATIONAL ENQUIRER were tax exempt, yet magazines like TIME and NEWSWEEK were taxable. Uh…why?

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**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-tax-exempt/84732/2 "2001-10-01T07:18:21Z")

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WAG: _WWN_ and its ilk are considered newspapers, and you live in a state where newspapers (but not magazines) are exempt from sales tax.

[http://www.revenue.state.co.us/fyi/html/sales44.html](http://www.revenue.state.co.us/fyi/html/sales44.html)  
(That’s the law in Colorado; YMMV)