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Local Cities and Counties Tax Rates Text File

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Local Cities and Counties Tax Rates Text File

The taxrates.txt file is a comma-delimited text file (i.e. fields separated by commas), that contains local tax rate information for all Alabama cities and counties that levy a sales, use, lodgings or rental tax. (Includes both state-administered local taxes, as well as nonstate-administered local taxes.) This text file should be compatible with practically any spreadsheet or database application. This file will be updated on a monthly basis by the Sales & Use Tax Division. The help.txt file is a Help file intended to be used with the downloadable taxrates.txt file.

  • taxrates.txt – Original file which includes current and historical information.  (Updated for January 2021:   12/30/2020 @ 5:27 p.m. CST)
  • taxrates_current.txt – A “taxrates” file with current, active information only.  (Updated for January 2021:   12/30/2020 @ 5:27 p.m. CST)
  • help.txt   (Help File provides instructions and descriptions of the data included in the taxrates.txt file.)

To download the taxrates.txt file:

  • Simply right click on the above taxrates.txt or taxrates_current.txt file,
  • Click “Save As” or “Save Target As”,
  • Save the file to your hard drive.
    • The comma delimited file can be imported into Excel or a database, OR
    • Change the file extension from txt to csv and the file will automatically open in Excel when double-clicked.