40-5-34
Section 40-5-34 Assessment and collection of escaped taxes - Procedure. It is the duty of the collector, when engaged in the collection of taxes for any year, if he discovers that any person or property within his county has not been assessed with the tax or taxes lawfully chargeable to such person or property for that year, or any preceding year, not more than five years before that time, forthwith to assess and collect the taxes due on the same and in writing to notify the assessor of the fact so discovered, in order that proper assessment of unassessed taxes may be made, and the collector has the same authority to administer oaths and propound questions as the assessor has, and any party failing or refusing to answer such questions or to give in his property shall be liable to the same penalties as provided in cases where parties fail or refuse to return their property to the assessor or answer the questions required to be propounded by the assessor. In such assessments of escaped...
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40-7-3
Section 40-7-3 Duty of assessor to visit voting places for purpose of listing; notice of times assessor will attend to receive returns. Between October 1 and January 1 of each year, the tax assessor shall in all counties having a population of 100,000 or less visit each voting place in each precinct for the purpose of listing property for taxation, and he shall remain there one day in all county precincts and towns of less than 1,000 inhabitants from 8:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. In towns, other than county seats, of 5,000 inhabitants or more, he shall remain at each place of appointment for one week, either by himself or deputy. In places of 1,000 inhabitants and not over 5,000, he shall remain at the place of appointment for three days, either by himself or deputy. The assessor shall give at least 10 days' notice by advertisement in a newspaper, if there is one published in the county, and by bills posted at five or more public places in each election precinct of the time when he will...
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40-7-31
Section 40-7-31 Assessment to "owners unknown." Whenever the tax assessor knows or learns of any property, real or personal, subject to taxation in his county, the owner of which he does not know and which is not embraced in any tax return made to him on or before the third Monday in January by any taxpayer, he shall list and make upon the proper blank a return describing said property according to the best information he can obtain and assess the same "owner unknown" at the amount specified by law on a fair and reasonable market value, and in any notice or advertisement or motion for judgment of sale it shall be described as so returned; and he shall also note the failure of the owner to make such return and shall also note the accrual of the penalty of 10 percent of the taxes to be assessed thereon. No lands shall be returned to "owner unknown" until the assessor shall have made a demand upon the person, if resident in the county, or by certified or registered mail, if nonresident,...
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40-7-42
Section 40-7-42 Levy of taxes from book of assessments. (a) The county commission, at the first regular meeting in February 2015, shall levy the amount of general taxes required for the expenses of the county, not to exceed one half of one percent of the value of the taxable property as assessed for revenue for the state as shown by the book of assessments after it shall have been corrected, at the same time levying the amount of special taxes required for the county, which levy shall be made upon the same basis of valuation provided above and, when the levy shall be made, shall certify the rate or rates of taxation and the purpose or purposes for which the tax is levied to the tax assessor of the county. The levies established as provided herein shall be assessed and collected in all subsequent tax years unless altered by the county commission in compliance with a change in the tax rate by general law not later than the last day of February prior to the effective date of the change in...
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40-8-1
Section 40-8-1 Classification of property; assessment rate. (a) On and after October 1, 1978, with respect to ad valorem taxes levied by the state, and, unless otherwise provided, with respect to ad valorem taxes levied by a county, municipality, or other taxing authority other than the state, all taxable property shall be divided into the following classes and no other and shall be assessed for ad valorem tax purposes at the following ratios of assessed value to the fair and reasonable market value of such property, or, as may be provided by law, to the current use value of such property: CLASS I. All property of utilities used in the business of such utilities, 30 percent. CLASS II. All property not otherwise classified, 20 percent. CLASS III. All agricultural, forest, and residential property, and historic buildings and sites, 10 percent. CLASS IV. All private passenger automobiles and motor trucks of the type commonly known as "pickups" or "pickup trucks" owned and operated by an...
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40-9-14.1
Section 40-9-14.1 Certificates of exemption to governmental entities, contractors, etc., for certain tax exempt projects. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term governmental entity means the State of Alabama and its political subdivisions, including a county, a municipality, an industrial or economic development board or authority, and any public water or sewer authority, district, system, or board that otherwise is sales and use tax exempt. A governmental entity shall also include an educational institution of any of the foregoing Alabama political subdivisions including a public college or university, a county or city board of education, and the State Board of Education. (b)(1) The Department of Revenue shall issue a certificate of exemption to the governmental entity for each tax exempt project. (2) The Department of Revenue shall grant a certificate of exemption from state and local sales and use taxes to any contractor licensed by the State Licensing Board for General...
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40-9A-2
Section 40-9A-2 Private user leasing private use property from government required to file report; inability to file information; information needed in report. (a) Any private user of private use property leased by the private user from a municipality, county, or public authority of the State of Alabama shall, not later than January 1, 1993, file with the tax assessor of the county in which the leased property is located, the information required by subsection (c) of this section. (b) In the event any lessee described in subsection (a) of this section is unable to file the information required by subsection (c) of this section by January 1, 1993, such lessee shall on or before January 1, 1993, notify the tax assessor in writing, setting forth the item or items of required information which the lessee is unable to ascertain or calculate, the reason or reasons for such inability, and if the inability to file any one or more of the items of required information can be corrected with...
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45-20-242.51
Section 45-20-242.51 Privilege license and excise taxes. (a) The special county taxes levied pursuant to this subpart shall be privilege license and excise taxes in substance as follows: (1) Upon every person, firm, or corporation (not including the State of Alabama or the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board or ABC stores) engaged or continuing within the county in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character (not including, however, bonds or other evidence of debt or stocks), an amount equal to one percent of the gross proceeds of sales of the business except where a different amount is expressly provided herein. Any person engaging or continuing in business as a retailer and wholesaler or jobber shall pay the tax required on the gross proceeds of retail sales of such businesses at the rates specified, when his or her books are kept so as to show separately the gross proceeds of...
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45-20-242.81
Section 45-20-242.81 Levy of additional use tax. (a) This section shall only apply to Covington County. (b) All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-60, 40-23-61, 40-23-62, and 40-23-63, providing for the levy of a state use tax shall wherever used in this section, have the same meanings respectively ascribed to them, in those sections except where the context herein clearly indicates a different meaning. In addition, the following words, terms, and phrases where used in this section shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) COUNTY. Covington County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. Covington County Commission. (3) MONTH. The calendar month. (4) STATE USE TAX. The tax imposed by the use tax statutes. (5) STATE USE TAX STATUTES. Sections 40-23-60, 40-23-61, 40-23-62, and 40-23-63, which levy a certain use tax, and include all statutes, including amendments to those sections which expressly set forth any...
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45-22-243.60
Section 45-22-243.60 Levy of privilege license and excise taxes. There is levied in Cullman County, in addition to all other taxes now imposed by law, special county privilege license and excise taxes paralleling state sales and use taxes in the manner and at the rates hereafter prescribed: (1) Upon every person, firm, or corporation (not including the State of Alabama or the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board or ABC stores) engaged or continuing within Cullman County in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character (not including, however, bonds or other evidence of debt or stocks), an amount equal to one percent of the gross proceeds of sales of the business except where a different amount is expressly provided herein. Any person engaging or continuing in business as a retailer and wholesaler or jobber shall pay the tax required on the gross proceeds of retail sales of such...
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