Sales Tax Holiday In Alabama Next Weekend

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By The Associated Press

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Published: Mon, July 21, 2008 - 10:23 am

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's third annual sales tax holiday
weekend starts at midnight Aug. 1 through Sunday. Retailers
statewide are extending hours and planning special sales.

The state is waiving its four percent sales tax. Nancy Dennis, a
spokeswoman for the Alabama Retail Association, said more than 200
cities and counties are also waiving all or part of their local
sales taxes.

The tax-free weekend is designed to help parents with
back-to-school purchases, but anyone can buy items covered by the
sales tax waiver.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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While it is a nice idea, to me it comes a little late in the back to school shopping season. If you wait until 2 weeks before school starts, you will find everything picked over and out of stock at a lot of places.I always do mine immediately after the 4th of July holiday, when they are getting things in-costs a little more, but saves me from having to run all over town, and the headache of kids saying they don’t like that brand shirt, etc.

Posted by rmseek1234 on 07/21/08 - 6:56 pm • Report Abuse

4 percent is state tax and the other 6 percent is city/county. If you have to buy kids school uniforms or clothes this is a great time to do it, saves you 30 on 300 dollars worth of stuff. Don’t be so sarcastic about it Ronald, at least they are doing it to help people, not raising it to line thier pockets. And Mobile City/County and all of Baldwin County are taking of fthier taxes also =10% savings.

Posted by Wait4Me on 07/21/08 - 6:40 pm • Report Abuse

wow four percent,now what will i do with all that extra money,why do they charge me ten percent when i ck. out.so if i spend one hundred dollars i get a gallon of gas,what a deal.think i will just stay at home.

Posted by ronald t on 07/21/08 - 4:23 pm • Report Abuse