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Recordation Tax

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Sections 40-22-1 through 40-22-12, Code of Alabama 1975.

Recordation of mortgages, deeds, bills of sale, conditional sale contracts, etc.

Mortgages – $.15 per $100 of indebtedness or fraction thereof. (Also deeds of trust, conditional sale contracts, etc.)

Deeds – $.50 per $500 of value or fraction thereof. (Also bills of sale.)

Two-thirds – General Fund.

One-third – County.