Title 40 — Title 40

If a sales or use tax equal to or greater than the amount of the Alabama tax is paid to another state under a requirement of law, the property which is the subject of such tax when imported for use or consumption in Alabama is not subject to the use tax, which is required to be p…

Every seller engaged in making retail sales of tangible personal property for storage, use or other consumption in this state, who: (1) Maintains a place of business; (2) Qualifies to do business; (3) Solicits and receives purchases or orders by agent or salesman; or (4) Distribu…

Every such seller making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use or other consumption in this state, not exempted under the provisions of Section 40-23-62, shall at the time of making such sales or, if the storage, use or other consumption of the tangible personal pr…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f), the tax imposed by this article shall be due and payable to the department monthly on or before the 20th day of the month next succeeding each month during which the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal proper…

Quarterly, Semi-Annually, or Annually; Extension of Time for Making Return. (a) The taxes levied under this division, except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the 20th day of the month next succeeding the month …

The department for good cause may extend for not to exceed 30 days the time for making any return required under the provisions of this article. History: (Acts 1939, No. 67, p. 96; Code 1940, T. 51, §798.)

The department, whenever it deems it necessary to insure compliance with the provisions of this article, may require any person subject thereto to deposit with it such security as the department may determine. The same may be sold by the department at public auction if it becomes…

A discount of three percent of the taxes levied by this article due and payable to the state shall be allowed to the seller or vendor; provided, that the taxes due by such seller are paid before same becomes delinquent, as in this article provided. Effective June 1, 2001, the Gov…

Any person taxable under this division, having cash and credit sales, may report such cash sales, and the taxpayer shall thereafter include in each monthly report all credit collections made during the month preceding, and shall pay the taxes due thereon at the time of filing suc…

If any retailer liable for an amount of tax herein required to be collected shall sell out his business or stock of goods or shall quit the business, he shall make a final return and payment within 15 days after the date of selling or quitting business. His successor, successors …

Every seller and every person storing, using or otherwise consuming in this state tangible personal property purchased from a retailer shall keep such records, receipts, invoices and other pertinent papers in such form as the department may require. The department or any person a…

September 1, 2026.] AMENDED BY ACTS 2026-392 AND ACT 2026-514, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR REVISED LANGUAGE. All taxes, fees, interest, or penalties imposed and all amounts of tax herein required to be paid to the state under this article must be paid to the Departme…

Any seller or other person failing or refusing to furnish any return hereby required to be made, or failing or refusing to furnish a supplemental return or other data required by the department, or rendering a false or fraudulent return, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subje…

It shall be the duty of every person engaging or continuing in this state in any business for which a privilege tax is imposed by this division, to keep and preserve suitable records of the gross sales, gross proceeds of sales, and gross receipts or gross receipts of sales of suc…