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Nominate Your Favorite Retailer Today!

Retailer of the Year nominations due Friday, June 26

ROTYlogoIn September, the Alabama Retail Association, in conjunction with the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Business will name the Retailers of the Year.  To be considered a retailer, the business must collect state and local sales taxes. Finalists are selected in four categories by Alabama annual sales volume:

Less than $1 million

$1 million to $5 million

$5 million to $20 million

More than $20 million

Nominate a retailer online at the read more link below.

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ARA Goes to Washington

ARA Spends Two Days with Delegation

A contingent from the Alabama Retail Association visited the nine-member Alabama congressional delegation on June 23 and 24 to discuss retailers' opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act and our support of the Credit Card Fair Fee Act, the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act and the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act.

From left in photo: Alison Wingate, Dianne Wammack, Justin Middleton, Philip Weaver, Darrell Bourne, Bob Akers, Rick Brown and Nancy Dennis.



Coming Soon: Sales Tax Holiday

Friday to Sunday, August 7 - 9, 2009

Sales tax tag iconBeginning at 12:01 a.m. (CST) on Friday Aug. 7, 2009, and ending at midnight Sunday Aug. 9, 2009, Alabama will hold its fourth annual sales tax holiday giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers and clothing free of the state's four percent sales or use tax. Cities and counties have until Monday, July 6, to decide if they will participate in the holiday.
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For the latest information impacting Alabama retailers, check out these Alabama Retail Association publications: