Prattville council adopts municipal exemption for state back-to-school sales tax holiday
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Council adopted an ordinance exempting covered items from municipal sales and use tax for the state-authorized back-to-school sales tax holiday, set for July 18–20 under state law cited in the ordinance.
The Prattville City Council adopted an ordinance to exempt covered items from municipal sales and use tax during the state's back-to-school sales tax holiday, specifying the city's exemption period will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 18, and end at midnight on Sunday, July 20.
Councilor Strzyczyk introduced the ordinance, which cites state law (section 40-23-210 through section 40-23-213, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended) and directs the city clerk to certify and forward a copy of the ordinance to the Alabama Department of Revenue for posting. By point of order the council suspended the rules to permit a vote on the ordinance that night; the clerk conducted a roll-call vote and councilors recorded affirmative votes. The ordinance was adopted at that meeting.
The ordinance language makes the municipal exemption subject to the same items, definitions and conditions provided by the state statute, but limits the city's declared time period to the specified July dates rather than making it automatically apply to future years. The city clerk was authorized to certify the ordinance and transmit it to the Department of Revenue for publication and posting.