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Aug 2019MONTGOMERY, Aug. 13, 2019 – The Alabama Department of Revenue encourages eligible online sellers and marketplace facilitators that are subject to a collection requirement to register for the state’s Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT) remittance program by Oct. 1, 2019. Doing so will relieve such sellers from the obligation of certain tax liability for the […]
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Aug 2019NOTICE TO: All License Commissioners, Probate Judges, and Other Local LicensingOfficials charged with the registration and collection of sales and use taxeson any automotive vehicle, motorboat, truck trailer, trailer, semitrailer,travel trailer or manufactured home taxed under Code of Alabama 1975,Sections 40-23-101 and 40-23-102 This notice is being issued to provide local officials and taxpayers guidance […]
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Jul 2019NOTICE Act 2019-382 – Simplified Sellers Use Tax Amnesty, Class Action Protection, and Clarification of Nontaxable Transactions Effective June 5, 2019, Act 2019-382 amends §40-23-199, Code of Alabama, 1975, to provide the following: Eligible sellers participating in the Simplified Sellers Use Tax Program shall be granted amnesty for any uncollected simplified sellers use tax that […]
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Jun 2019MONTGOMERY, June 19, 2019– The Alabama Supreme Court recently upheld a lower court decision finding that a series of transactions involving the sale of computer software and related equipment was subject to sales tax. The case, Ex parte Russell County Community Hospital, LLC, Case No. 1180204, was decided on May 17, 2019. In reaching its […]
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Mar 2019MONTGOMERY, March 11, 2019 – The Alabama Department of Revenue is offering tax relief to Alabama taxpayers who have been affected by recent severe storms in Lee County. The tax relief measures mirror IRS measures in the same declared disaster areas. The department follows the IRS determination of eligible localities to which filing extensions are […]
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Jan 2019NOTICE TO: All sellers making retail sales of prepaid wireless telecommunication services, to include, but not limited to, the sale of prepaid wireless minutes via phone, card, download, code, or any other manner of transaction Please be advised that on October 1, 2018, the Alabama Statewide 911 Board adopted the flat rate of $1.86 as […]
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Nov 2018MONTGOMERY, Nov. 27, 2018 – The Alabama Department of Revenue is offering tax relief to Alabama taxpayers who have been affected by damage caused by Hurricane Michael. The tax relief measures mirror IRS measures in the same declared disaster areas. Four Alabama counties were recently added to the list of eligible areas: Geneva, Henry, Houston, […]
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Nov 2018NOTICE To: All Alabama Municipalities Subject: New Municipal License Report and Reporting Requirements When the legislature passed Act 2017-294, known as the Wholesale to Retail Accountability Program (WRAP), it included Section 40-23-262, Code of Alabama 1975. This section requires information on all municipal business privilege license applications for new licenses and renewals issued on or […]
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Nov 2018MONTGOMERY, Nov. 7, 2018 – Tamara Gonzalez Wintzell, 59, of Fairhope pleaded guilty on Nov. 6 to charges that she willfully failed to remit to the state, the city of Fairhope, and Baldwin County more than $600,000 of sales taxes that her restaurants, under the name of Tamara’s Restaurant Group, collected from January 2010 through […]
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Oct 2018On July 1, 2018, you began uploading the Beer and Wine Sales for Resale Report to My Alabama Taxes (MAT). If errors in the information were detected, you should have received a phone call or email (or both) providing you with corrected account information for your customer(s). It is very important that the corrected information […]