11-51-198
Section 11-51-198 Authorization required for imposition of municipal occupational or license taxes. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), no municipality may impose an occupational or license tax on any natural person derived from the conduct of a vocation, occupation, calling, or profession within the municipality. (b) The Legislature, by local law, may authorize a municipality to impose an occupational or license tax on any natural person derived from the conduct of a vocation, occupation, calling, or profession within the municipality. (c) This section shall not affect or repeal an existing municipal occupational tax in effect prior to February 1, 2020. (d) Nothing in this section is intended to affect or repeal the authority granted to a municipality to impose a municipal business license tax other than an occupational or license tax on any person engaging in an occupation in the municipality. (Act 2020-14, §1.)...
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11-51-90
Section 11-51-90 Municipal business licenses; branch offices; application. (a) All municipalities shall have the following powers: (1) To license any exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession not prohibited by the Constitution or laws of the state which may be engaged in or carried on in the municipality. (2) To fix the amount of licenses, the time for which they are to run, not exceeding one license year, to provide a penalty for doing business without a license, and to charge a fee not exceeding ten dollars ($10) for issuing each license. The issuance fee shall be increased every five license years by the Department of Revenue by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the U.S. Department of Labor's Producer Price Index during that five-year period, rounded to the nearest dollar, with the base year being 2006. The Department of Revenue shall notify all municipalities and the Alabama League of Municipalities of any such fee increase no later than...
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11-51-90.1
Section 11-51-90.1 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BUSINESS. Any commercial or industrial activity or any enterprise, trade, profession, occupation, or livelihood, including the lease or rental of residential or nonresidential real estate, whether or not carried on for gain or profit, and whether or not engaged in as a principal or as an independent contractor, which is engaged in, or caused to be engaged in, within a municipality. (2) BUSINESS LICENSE. An annual license issued by a taxing jurisdiction for the privilege of doing any kind of business, trade, profession, or any other activity in that jurisdiction, by whatever name called, which document is required to be conspicuously posted or displayed except to the extent the taxpayer's business license tax or other financial information is listed thereon or unless the municipality affirmatively elects not to so require. However, municipal occupational licenses,...
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45-37-244.02
Section 45-37-244.02 Jefferson County Entity Business License Tax. (a) This section shall apply only to Jefferson County. (b) As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) BUSINESS ACTIVITY. The carrying on or practice of any business, vocation, occupation, work, calling, or profession for profit. (2) BUSINESS ENTITY. A person engaged in one or more business activities, other than an individual. (3) COUNTY. Jefferson County. (4) GOVERNING BODY. The Jefferson County Commission. (5) INDIVIDUAL. A natural person other than a sole proprietor. (6) PERSON. Any corporation, partnership, company, association, unincorporated organization, or other entity formed to engage in business activity. The term includes an individual engaged in business activity as a sole proprietorship. (c)(1) In addition to all state license taxes levied under Article 2, commencing with Section 40-12-40, Chapter 12, Title 40, as amended, the governing body of the...
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45-44-244.31
Section 45-44-244.31 Authorization to levy tax; payment; amount. In addition to any and all other taxes or fees heretofore or hereafter levied in Macon County, the Macon County Commission may levy a payroll or privilege fee upon any person who performs a trade, occupation, or profession in those areas of the county not subject to an occupation tax on the effective date of the act adding this language. If any area is not subject to an occupational tax on the effective date of the act adding this language and the area is annexed into a municipality and becomes subject to a municipal occupational tax, any payroll or privilege fee levied pursuant to this section shall continue to apply in the annexed area notwithstanding any other provision of law. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or follow any trade, occupation, or profession within those areas of the county on or after the first day of January 1998, without paying the payroll or privilege fees imposed by this subpart. All...
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11-51-150
Section 11-51-150 Petition for injunction against taxpayer upon delinquency for payment of license or excise tax. Any municipality may file in the circuit court having jurisdiction over the county in which the petitioning municipality is situated a petition to enjoin the operation and conduct of any business, occupation, trade, or profession subject to a municipal privilege or business license or excise tax imposed by the petitioning municipality and which is delinquent in whole or in part, following no less than 15 days' written notice and demand to the taxpayer delivered personally or via certified U.S. mail, return receipt requested, and addressed to the taxpayer's last known address as indicated on the records of the municipality. The petition shall be verified by the mayor, city clerk, police officer, license officer, or by any other governing official or by any employee of the municipality authorized to receive or collect the privilege or business license or excise tax. (Acts...
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45-44-244
Section 45-44-244 Authorization to levy tax; referendum. (a) If first approved by a majority of the qualified electors of Macon County who vote thereon at a referendum election held for that purpose, the court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or other like governing body of Macon County may by ordinance or resolution, levy and impose a county license tax or fee upon any person who engages in or follows any trade, occupation, or profession, as defined in this subpart, which license tax or fee shall be measured by one percent of the gross receipts of each such person. (b) The court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or other like governing body of Macon County shall order and provide for holding a referendum election on the question of levying the license tax or fee as provided in subsection (a). The election shall be held, in the same manner as other elections are held, within 120 days of August 21, 1981. The exact date shall be set by the county governing body. (Act...
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11-51-94
Section 11-51-94 License designates place of business, etc., and authorizes conduct thereof only at place designated; change of place of business, etc.; uniformity of license tax; classification, etc., of licenses in certain cities. Any person desiring to engage in any trade, business, profession, or occupation for which a license is or may be required shall designate the place at which such trade or business or occupation or profession is carried on, and the license to be issued under this division shall designate such place, and such license shall authorize the carrying on of such trade, business, occupation, or profession only at the place designated unless such person shall be granted permission by the council or other governing body to move his place of business, trade, occupation, or profession to another place in the city or town, and in that event such permission shall be endorsed by the clerk on such license. The same license shall be charged and collected for all portions of...
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11-42-132
Section 11-42-132 Provisions in annexation agreement as to taxation in municipality annexed. The agreement of annexation may provide for specific property having a situs thereon embraced in the annexed city or town to be exempt from city or town taxation or the payment of taxes to the annexing city or town for a period not exceeding 10 years and may provide a maximum license tax to be annually assessed and collected by the annexing city or town from each and every person, firm, company, or corporation engaging in or carrying on any business, vocation, occupation, or profession in the territory exempt from taxation. (Code 1907, §1153; Code 1923, §1848; Code 1940, T. 37, §215.)...
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11-51-90.2
Section 11-51-90.2 Purchase of business license; classification of taxpayers; vehicle decals; determination of gross receipts; construction with other provisions. (a) Every taxpayer required to purchase a business license under this chapter shall: (1) Purchase a business license for each location at which it does business in the municipality, except as otherwise provided by the municipality. (2) Except as provided in Section 11-51-193, with respect to taxpayers subject to state licensing board oversight, be classified into one or more of the following 2002 North American Industrial Classification System ("NAICS") sectors and applicable sub-sectors, industry groups, industries, and U.S. industries thereunder: SECTOR NAICS TITLE SUGGESTED BUSINESS LICENSE CODE GROUPING BY SAMPLE TOPIC OR CATEGORY BASIS FOR LICENSE CALCULATION 111 Crop Production Agriculture, farming, nursery, fruit, growers Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 112 Animal Production Animal, dairy, cattle, ranching, sheep,...
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