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The Back-To-School Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on the third Friday in July and ends at midnight on the following Sunday, pursuant to §40-23-210 to §40-23-213, Code of Alabama 1975.

Counties and municipalities are also able to join the sales tax holiday if they pass a resolution each year or pass a resolution stating they will participate every year. Marengo County, along with the cities of Demopolis, Linden, Faunsdale and Thomaston have also joined the state in participating in the sales tax holiday on back-to-school items. 

Clothing items that are eligible for the sales tax holiday includes the following that are $100 or less for each article of clothing: 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 and Underwear.

Non eligible items include: Belt buckles (sold separately), Briefcases, Cosmetics, Costume masks (sold separately), Hair Notions (barrettes, hair bows, etc.), Handbags, Handkerchiefs, Jewelry, Patches and emblems (sold separately), Sewing equipment & supplies (pins, patterns, scissors, tape measures, etc.), Sewing materials (thread, fabric, buttons, zippers, etc.), Sunglasses, eyeglasses, contacts (prescription or nonprescription), Umbrellas, Wallets, Watches, Wigs and hair pieces, Breathing masks, Clean room apparel and equipment, Ear & hearing protectors, Face shields, Hard hats, Helmets, Paint or dust respirators, Protective gloves, Safety glasses and goggles, Safety belts, Tool belts, Welder gloves and masks, Ballet or tap shoes, Band instruments, Cleated or spiked athletic shoes, Gloves (baseball, bowling, boxing, hockey, golf, etc.), Goggles, Hand and elbow guards, Life preserves and vests, Mouth guards, Roller and ice skates, Shin guards, Shoulder pads, Ski boots, Waders, Wetsuits and fins.

Computer supplies covers items with a sales price of $750 or less. For a purchase to be eligible, a computer may include a laptop, desktop, or tower computer system which consists of a central processing unit (CPU), and devices such as a display monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers sold as a computer package. Computer parts and devices not sold as part of a package with the CPU, will not qualify for the exemption.

School computer supplies includes Computer storage media; diskettes, compact disks, Handheld electronic schedulers, except devices that are cellular phones, Personal digital assistants, except devices that are cellular phones, Computer printers, Printer supplies for computers (printer paper, printer ink)

Noneligible items are Furniture, Any systems, devices, software, peripherals designed or intended primarily for recreational use, Video games of a non-educational nature.

School supplies eligible for the holiday have a sales price of $50 or less, per item (noncommercial purchases). It includes Binders, Blackboard chalk, Book bags, Calculators, Cellophane tape, Compasses, Composition books, Crayons, Erasers, Folders (expandable, pocket, plastic, and manila), Glue, paste, and paste sticks,  Highlighters, Index cards, Index card boxes, Legal pads, Lunch boxes, Markers, Notebooks, Protractors, Paper (colored, construction, copy, graph, loose leaf ruled notebook, manila, and tracing papers and poster board), Pencil boxes and other school supply boxes, Pencil sharpeners, Pencils, Pens, Rulers, Scissors and Writing tablets.

Art supplies Clay and glazes, Paints (acrylic, tempura, oil, and watercolors), Paintbrushes for artwork, Sketch and drawing pads

School instructional materials include reference maps and globes, required textbooks on an official schoolbook list with a sales price of more than $30 and less than $50.

Books with a sales price less than $30 are eligible. Magazines, newspapers and periodicals along with any other document printed or offered for sale in a non-bound form are not eligible.