Proposed legislation would allow Alabama citizens to block themselves from buying guns from licensed dealers by voluntarily adding their names to a do-not-sell list. The legislation carries a $5,000 civil penalty for anyone who knowingly sells or transfers a firearm…
A $1,000 tax credit for hiring combat and unemployed veterans is now law. The Veterans Employment Act by Rep. Connie Rowe, R-Jasper, is retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year. Businesses giving honorably discharged combat veterans or any unemployed honorably discharged veteran a full-time,…
Online third-party vendors that have until this point avoided collecting and remitting Alabama sales taxes would be closer to being on the same level as brick-and-mortar retailers under a bill approved this week by a House budget-writing committee. HB470 makes major…
When it comes to your workers’ comp coverage, it pays to stay with ARC. Elaine Beegle has found that to be true. She and her husband own On Tap Sports Cafes in Fultondale, Inverness and at the Galleria. Their businesses…
An unpretentious, old green awning out front tells the story of the enduring Trowbridge’s Ice Cream Parlor and Sandwich Shop. For nearly 100 years now, generations of families have been creating memories inside the downtown Florence eatery founded as Trowbridge’s…
A consumer can now directly petition the Alabama Department of Revenue for a refund of sales, use, lodging or public utility taxes. Previously, the consumer who overpaid or paid tax that wasn’t owed to the business taxpayer and the business…
Legislation to require retailers to print their refund policy on their customer receipts went nowhere in the 2018 regular session. Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Daphne, wanted a printed refund policy to include whether an exchange, store credit or cash refund was…
Pharmacies would have been able to remove prescription drug sales from their gross receipts when calculating the cost of their business license, under a bill approved by a Senate committee. The bill never received floor consideration. The Senate County and…
If this was a normal legislative session, lawmakers hit the halfway point on Tuesday. It appears, though, that Alabama’s legislators are sticking to their plan to fund state government and leave Montgomery early so they can begin campaigning in earnest…
Americans plan to spend a record $5.9 billion to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year, according to the annual survey by the National Retail Federation. The survey found more than 149 million U.S. adults plan to celebrate the March 17 Irish…