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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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40-2A-7
Section 40-2A-7 Uniform revenue procedures. (a) Maintenance of records; audit and subpoena
authority; authority to issue regulations. (1) In addition to all other recordkeeping requirements
otherwise set out in this title, taxpayers shall keep and maintain an accurate and complete
set of records, books, and other information sufficient to allow the department to determine
the correct amount of value or correct amount of any tax, license, permit, or fee administered
by the department, or other records or information as may be necessary for the proper administration
of any matters under the jurisdiction of the department. The books, records, and other information
shall be open and available for inspection by the department upon request at a reasonable
time and location. (2) The department may examine and audit the records, books, or other relevant
information maintained by any taxpayer or other person for the purpose of computing and determining
the correct amount of value or correct...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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11-51-12
Section 11-51-12 Filing of list in circuit court; entry of civil actions for assessments on
trial docket; issuance, execution, and return of summons notifying owners of institution of
proceedings against property generally. Such lists shall be filed with the register or clerk
of the circuit court. The register or clerk shall cause to be entered on the trial docket
in such court in a well-bound book kept for that purpose a civil action for each assessment
of property of the city or town against such property so assessed. Said docket shall show
the amount of the taxes sought to be collected, a description of the property and the name
of the owner, if known. Upon the filing of the certificate, the register or clerk is directed
to issue a summons, as in other civil actions, containing a description of the property and
notifying each owner of the filing of the proceedings against his property. Only one summons,
however, shall be necessary if two or more pieces of property are assessed to...
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11-88-55
Section 11-88-55 Publication of notice as to assessment book. After the completion of the proper
entries of each improvement, the said book shall be delivered to the secretary of the authority,
who shall thereupon give notice by publication one time in some newspaper published in each
county in which any part of the improvements have been constructed and of general circulation
therein that the said assessment roll or list has been delivered to him and is open for inspection
in the office of the person authorized to make collection of the said assessments, whose title
and address shall be listed. The notice shall also state the general character of the improvement,
the terminal points thereof, and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways, or portions
thereof, along which the improvement has been constructed and shall also describe the frontage
of the property drained by the said improvement or the territory or area drained, served,
or benefited by the said improvement by naming...
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40-10-4
Section 40-10-4 Notice to taxpayer - Service generally. (a) On receiving such book, as speedily
as practicable the judge of probate shall issue a notice addressed to each person against
whom any unpaid taxes are assessed as shown by such book, substantially in the following form:
"State of Alabama, (give name of county) county, to (give name of taxpayer): The tax
collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent taxpayers, and of real estate upon which
taxes are due. You are reported as delinquent, and your tax amounts to (here give amount of
taxes) with costs added. This is to notify you to appear before the probate court of said
county at the next term thereof, commencing on Monday, the _____ day of _____, 2__, then and
there to show cause, if any you have, why a decree for the sale of property assessed for taxation
as belonging to you should not be made for the payment of the taxes thereon and fees and costs.
(Here probate judge's signature). Judge of probate." Such notice must...
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40-10-2
Section 40-10-2 Book of lands upon which taxes have not been paid - Contents; form of entries.
The tax collector shall, at the expense of the county, procure a substantially bound book
in which he or she shall enter, in the manner usual in docketing causes for trial in the circuit
court, each parcel of real estate, or right or interest, or easement therein, assessed to
any person against whom taxes have been assessed which are not paid or, if the tax collector
has received written notice from the holder of a tax certificate, issued pursuant to Acts
1995, No. 95-408, requesting that the tax collector list the property described in such tax
certificate in the book of lands prepared pursuant to this section, have been paid by the
holder of such holder of a tax lien certificate, when a portion of the taxes are on the real
estate or right or interest or easement therein, describing the same in the same manner as
it is described in the assessment list or the record of tax lien sales kept...
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40-7-23
Section 40-7-23 Assessment of escaped taxes; avoidance of penalty; notice and collection. (a)
Whenever the tax assessor, county revenue commissioner, or other assessing official shall
discover that any property, including any improvements on real estate assessed as vacant property,
has escaped taxation in any assessment within five years next preceding the current year,
he shall list, return, and value said property for assessment for the years during which same
has escaped taxation and shall also endorse on such returns the year or years for which the
property has escaped taxation and, except as provided in subsection (b) hereinafter, the accrual
of a penalty of 10 percent of the taxes assessed thereon for each year. (b) Any taxpayer who
escaped assessment of tangible personal property for taxable years ending on or before September
30, 1988 shall not have accrued to his account the 10 percent penalty, provided: (1) He files
a proper tax return and assesses such property not later...
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40-10-130
Section 40-10-130 Duty of judge of probate on redemption of land bid in by state. Within five
days from the redemption of any real estate bid in by the state, the judge of probate shall
notify the tax assessor and tax collector of his county thereof and shall, on demand, pay
to them the costs and fees to which they are respectively entitled, and the assessor shall
enter such real estate and the name of the person redeeming the same on an appropriate list
to be kept by him for assessment. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, ยง313.)...
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40-7-25
Section 40-7-25 Estimation of fair market value; assessment list; notice; objections. Except
as otherwise provided by law, the assessing official shall, from information entered on the
tax return list and from all other information known to him or her, or which he or she may
procure, proceed to ascertain what, in his or her best judgment, is a fair and reasonable
market value of each item of property returned by or listed to any taxpayer; provided, that
the assessed value of any real estate or improvements as fixed for taxation for the year next
preceding the then current tax year shall be prima facie the basis of the value of the property
for assessment for the current tax year, and the property shall not be assessed for taxation
at a less valuation unless, upon evidence submitted to the county board of equalization, as
provided for herein, it is found that the assessed valuation of the property reviewed should
be reduced. The assessing official shall in separate columns enter on the...
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