40-7-2
Section 40-7-2 Commencement and completion of assessment; supplemental assessment. The return
and listing of property for taxation by the tax assessor must commence on October 1 in every
year and shall be finished by him on January 1 following, but the assessor may be allowed
through the third Monday in January in each year to make a supplemental return or list of
property which he may have failed to have returned or listed prior to January 1, and such
supplemental return must be entered as any other return and shall be embraced in the abstracts
made for the Department of Finance, tax collector, and Department of Revenue. (Acts 1935,
No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §37.)...
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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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40-7-1
Section 40-7-1 Authority of tax assessor; duties of taxpayer. (a) The tax assessor or other
assessing official in each of the several counties shall have the right and authority to assess
all real estate, together with improvements thereon, and all personal property to the party
last assessing the same, or to the owner of record, except such real estate and personal property
which is now or may hereafter be assessed by the Department of Revenue. The failure of the
tax assessor or other assessing official to assess said property to the true owner shall not
invalidate the assessment. The tax assessor or other assessing official shall have the right
and authority to prescribe the proper bookkeeping method to carry out the provisions of this
article, subject to the approval of the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts. Should the owner
of any real estate make improvements on such property, or should any improvements be removed
or destroyed or partially removed or destroyed during any taxable...
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40-2-11
Section 40-2-11 Powers and duties generally. It shall be the duty of the Department of Revenue,
and it shall have the power and authority, in addition to the authority now in it vested by
law: (1) To have and exercise general and complete supervision and control of the valuation,
equalization, and assessment of property, privilege, or franchise and of the collection of
all property, privilege, license, excise, intangible, franchise, or other taxes for the state
and counties, and of the enforcement of the tax laws of the state, and of the several county
tax assessors and county tax collectors, probate judges, and each and every state and county
official, board, or commission charged with any duty in the enforcement of tax laws, to the
end that all taxable property in the state shall be assessed and taxes shall be imposed and
collected thereon in compliance with the law and that all assessments on property, privileges,
intangibles, and franchises in the state shall be made in exact...
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40-3-16
Section 40-3-16 Duties generally; quorum; powers and duties of agents; protest procedure. It
shall be the duty of the boards of equalization to inspect, review, revise, and fix the value
of all the property returned to or listed with the assessing official for taxation each year;
provided, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the assessing official
or boards of equalization to value any property required by the law to be assessed for taxation
by the Department of Revenue. The majority of the board of equalization shall constitute a
quorum of the board for the performance of the duties required herein; provided, that at any
time the Department of Revenue shall deem it necessary it may go or send or use agents or
representatives in any county with authority to act in an advisory capacity and in conjunction
with the board of equalization and perform other duties, with respect to the valuation and
assessment of property for taxation, as may be required of them. Agents...
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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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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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40-2-18
Section 40-2-18 Procedure after revaluation and equalization. Whenever the work of revaluing
and equalizing any class or classes of property has been completed by order of the Department
of Revenue, as provided herein, and the revised valuation has been entered on the tax return
list, the county board of equalization shall certify over their signatures to the correctness
thereof and shall deliver the tax return list showing the assessment and revaluation to the
assessing official of the county as their report, and the assessing official shall hold them
in his or her office subject to public inspection. The assessing official shall then give
notice by publication once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in
the county, if any are published in the county and, if no newspaper is published in the county,
by posting notices in at least three public places in the county that the county board of
equalization has returned its report and that the same is open to public...
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40-21-17
Section 40-21-17 Determination of value; assessment of property; penalizing delinquent taxpayer;
apportionment of assessed value; report to tax assessor. The department shall proceed forthwith
to examine the returns made by all persons, firms, and corporations required by law to make
the same and also such information as the department may have obtained in addition thereto,
shall determine the valuation of the different items of property required to be returned to
it and shall assess such property for taxation at 30 percent of its reasonable value; and,
in case no return has been made by or on behalf of such person, firm, or corporation on or
before March 1 in each year, the department may add to the assessment which it makes against
such person, firm, or corporation a penalty not exceeding 10 percent of the assessment as
made therefor. The assessment herein required to be made shall be completed on or before July
1, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and reported to the tax...
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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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