Tax Free Weekend 2023

Get Ready for the Perfect Shopping Combo: Tax-Free Weekend + Back-to-School! As summer comes to a close and the school bell begins to ring, it’s time to gear up for an exciting shopping extravaganza and this weekend, we have an incredible opportunity to save big while checking off all those back-to-school essentials, thanks to the much-anticipated Tax-Free Weekend!

Alabama’s 17th annual sales tax holiday for school-related items begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 21, 2023, and ends at midnight Sunday, July 23, 2023, giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers, books and clothing free of the state’s four percent sales or use tax.

Here’s what’s included:

Clothing Items Included: ($100 or less per item)

Belts

Boots

Caps

Coats

Diapers

Dresses

Gloves

Gym Suits

Hats

Hosiery

Jackets

Jeans

Neckties

Pajamas

Pants

Raincoats

Robes

Sandals

Scarves

School Uniforms

Shirts

Shoes

Shorts

Socks

Sneakers

Underwear

School Supplies List: (Sale Price of less than $50 per item)

Binders

Blackboard Chalk

Book Bags

Calculators

Cellophane Tape

Compasses

Composition Books

Crayons

Erasers

Folders (expandable, pocket, plastic & manila)

Glue, paste, and paste sticks

Highlighters

Index Cards

Index Card Boxes

Legal Pads

Lunch Boxes

Markers

Notebooks

Paper (loose leaf ruled notebook paper, copy paper, graph paper, tracing paper, manila paper, colored

paper, poster board, and construction paper)

Pencil Boxes & Other School

Supply Boxes

Pencil Sharpeners

Pencils

Pens

Protractors

Rulers

Scissors

Writing Tablets

Art Supplies:

Clay & Glazes

Paints

(Acrylic, Tempora & Oil)

Paintbrushes for artwork

Sketch and Drawing Pads

Watercolors

Computers: (A single purchase of $750 or less)

Computer Storage Media; diskettes, compact disks

Handheld electronic schedulers, except devices that are cellular phones

Personal digital assistants, except devices that are cellular phones

Printer Supplies for Computers (printer paper, printer ink)