Earlier Alabama Back-to-School Tax Holiday Could Benefit Customers, Retailers Say

By Melissa Johnson Warnke
Alabama Retail Association

While schoolchildren across the state enjoy summer’s last hurrah, it’s already busy season inside Schoolcraft, a school and teacher supply store in Huntsville.

“July is our busiest month of the year,” said Wilson McClellan, who owns the store with his wife, Linda.

“Teachers are already coming to get items to make their classrooms bright and cheerful for the kids. It won’t be long until we see parents and children back here too, all excited to get their new nap mats and supplies,” Wilson said.And then it will get even busier, the McClellans say. That’s because Alabama’s 12th annual back-to-school sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 21, and ends at midnight Sunday, July 23, giving shoppers statewide the opportunity to buy certain school supplies, computers, books and clothing free of the state’s 4 percent sales or use tax.

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