40-7-27
Section 40-7-27 Assessor to certify correctness of returns, notify Department of Revenue and
deliver to board of equalization. When the assessor shall have completed his work of assessing,
valuing, and equalizing property which has been listed for taxation in his county, and such
valuation shall have been entered on the assessments lists, which shall not be later than
the last Monday in February of each year, he shall certify over his signature to the correctness
of his returns, showing valuations fixed by him, and he shall at once notify the Department
of Revenue by certified or registered mail that he has completed his assessment, valuation,
and equalization work and that the tax returns are ready for the review and inspection as
provided for in this title. Such lists of property shall be by the assessor delivered to the
board of equalization not later than the second Monday in March. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256;
Code 1940, T. 51, §57.)...
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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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40-7-25
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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40-3-17
Section 40-3-17 Meetings - Review of assessments. When the assessor shall have completed the
assessment, valuation, and equalization work in his county as provided by law, he shall notify
each member of the board of equalization, if such board is not required by law to serve full
time, and such board shall meet on the second Monday in February or at such other date prior
thereto as may be made possible by the completion of the work of the tax assessor and sit
at the courthouse of the county, from day to day, until its duties are completed or its allotted
number of days exhausted, and shall review, revise, correct, and fix the assessment values
made by the tax assessor by raising or lowering the assessment of any person, partnership,
corporation, or association, except such assessments as have been approved by the Department
of Revenue, as to any or all of the items of his assessment, in such manner as to secure the
assessment of property at the amount specified by law on its fair and...
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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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40-21-17
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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40-2-11
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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40-2-15
Section 40-2-15 Notice of setting assessment aside; revaluation and notice thereof. Whenever
the Department of Revenue has set aside and held for naught any assessment of property, except
as otherwise provided herein, it shall give notice by mail of such action to the tax assessor
of the county in which the property involved is located and to the owner of such property,
by certified or registered mail, return receipt demanded. As soon as practicable after any
property assessment has been set aside by the Department of Revenue, the department shall
make a revaluation and, in the same notice, set a date for hearing objections, if any are
made, to the valuation so fixed, and the hearing of objections shall be held at the office
of the Department of Revenue, in Montgomery, Alabama, or at the courthouse of the county in
which is located the property involved in the assessment, if demanded by the taxpayer, his
agent or attorney, and when such assessment shall have been completed and made...
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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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40-3-20
Section 40-3-20 Publication of notice of valuation of property. Immediately upon the completion
of the work of reviewing and adjusting assessed valuation under the provisions of this chapter,
the assessing official shall give notice by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks
in a newspaper published in the county. If no newspaper is published in the county, the notices
shall be posted in three public places in each precinct of the county. The notices shall state
that the assessed valuations of all property listed for taxation have been fixed as provided
by law, that the tax return lists showing the assessed valuations are in his or her office
and open for public inspection, that the board of equalization will sit at the courthouse
of the county on the date specified by the Department of Revenue to consider any protests
that may be filed by any taxpayer as herein provided, and that any taxpayer, who is not satisfied
with the valuations of his or her property as fixed and...
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