Wednesday, the Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee voted to amend Act No. 2021-419, the 2021 law that allows wineries to ship wine directly to Alabama homes. SB172 by Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, would: allow a direct wine shipper licensee…
The week started out marking the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic and ended looking forward to a legislative spring break. Only seven legislative days remain in 2022 regular session. When the Legislature returns Tuesday, March 29, from its spring…
In the 2022 regular session, the Alabama Legislature agreed to changes in the state’s pharmacy intern regulations and in how pharmacies are notified of disciplinary action. Revised Pharmacy Intern Regulation Effective June 1: The statute allows the state pharmacy board…
With only nine legislative days remaining in 2022 regular session, the legislative majority is moving quickly on priority bills, including tax relief. This week both chambers voted to do away with the state’s minimum business privilege tax, while the House…
Alabama pharmacy interns and externs will be under new regulations, effective June 1. Act No. 2022-130 by Sen. Billy Beasley, D-Clayton and Rep. Jeff Sorrells, R-Hartford, was signed it into law March 10. An update to 1966 law, the new…
On May 1, sellers who did less than $1.5 million in sales in Alabama in 2021 won’t have to estimate and pay sales taxes in advance each month, under small business tax relief the governor signed into law Monday. That…
At the halfway point of the Alabama Legislature’s 2022 regular session, one chamber has approved a record general operating budget for the state and the education budget is scheduled to be in committee next week. Another whirlwind, three-day legislative week…
Federal COVID-related child, earned income and dependent care tax credits or advance payments are now shielded from Alabama’s state income tax. Act No. 2022-37, which the governor signed Wednesday, allows individual taxpayers to calculate their federal income tax deduction without…
Legislation introduced Feb. 22 would have established a program within the Department of Labor to assist small businesses with job creation. It never received committee consideration. Under HB398, the department would have had an Alabama Job Creation Ombudsman who would help…
The Alabama Legislature in the fifth week of the regular session gave final approval to tax measures to benefit businesses and individual taxpayers. About 75% of Alabama businesses will be exempt from business personal property taxes and almost 2,500 businesses…