MONTGOMERY– Gov. Robert Bentley signed a proclamation declaring Tuesday, Oct. 6, as “Alabama Retail Day.” The day is designed to celebrate the retail industry in our state and the impact it has on Alabama and its communities. Retail, including food…
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses throughout the country are hoping to see passage of federal e-fairness legislation this year. Right now, they are disproportionately impacted by an online loophole that allows their Internet competitors to evade collecting sales tax. This artificial…
If your business sells consumable vapor products, there is a new law that changes the way you must remit state sales tax. During the second special session, Alabama lawmakers passed HB3 (Act. No. 2015-535), which raised cigarette taxes by 25-cents-per-pack and shifted where sales taxes…
MONTGOMERY/BIRMINGHAM – The Alabama Retail Association in cooperation with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business will honor 13 retail businesses with stores in 51 Alabama cities as Retailers of the Year during the 2015 Alabama Retail…
Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end to summer and the summer shopping season. While some retailers are closing up shop and taking advantage of the long holiday weekend, others are enticing bargain shoppers to show up and help them…
MONTGOMERY – Melissa Johnson Warnke this week joined the Alabama Retail Association as manager of communications and engagement. In her new position, she will be an integral part of the Alabama Retail Association’s communication team, engaging members, the media and…
MONTGOMERY – Macey McLain has joined Alabama Retail Comp, the state’s most cost effective workers’ compensation fund for retailers and other small businesses, as a claims support representative. She joined the claims department Aug. 5 to provide support for ARC…
MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama’s 10th annual back-to-school sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7, and ends at midnight Sunday, Aug. 9. The state’s four-percent sales tax is waived throughout the state, while sales taxes levied by 304…
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Alabama Retail Association in their continuing partnership to limit driver license fraud today presented the Examiner of the Year Award to Patricia South and Driver License Specialist of the Year Award…
Alabama more than doubled its projected sales growth for the 2014 holiday buying season, thanks to record sales in December. Taxed holiday sales in our state exceeded $10 billion in November and December, a jump of 5 percent over 2013 holiday sales. The…