The UALR bookstore will participate in Arkansas’s first sales tax holiday weekend Aug. 6 and 7. UALR and other retail stores will not charge sales taxes on purchases of school supplies, textbooks, and some clothing items.

The state initiative is an effort to give students and families a break on these supplies.

The UALR bookstore will be open Saturday, Aug. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the sales tax holiday weekend.

This tax holiday also will include online purchases in the bookstore from 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7.