| TO: | ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, AND CORPORATIONS making sales at retail and purchasing tangible personal property for use, storage, or other consumption in the Town of McIntosh, Alabama, and its police jurisdiction (located in Washington County). |
Sections 11-51-200, et seq., Code of Alabama 1975, authorize and empower municipalities to levy true sales and use tax identical to the State Sales and Use Tax Laws except for the rates of tax and require the Alabama Department of Revenue upon request of the municipality to collect the tax.
As authorized by Law, on November 23, 2004 the governing body of the Town of McIntosh adopted Ordinance No. 147 levying a use tax and increasing the Town of McIntosh’s sales tax rates effective January 1, 2005. The use tax rates are the same as the increased sales tax rates indicated below:
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RATES |
RATES |
| General Rate | |
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| Admissions to places of amusement and entertainment | 3.000 |
4.000 |
| Retail Selling Price of food for human consumption sold through vending machines | |
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| Net difference paid for machines,
machinery, and equipment used in planting, cultivating and harvesting farm products |
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| Machines and parts and attachments
for machines used in manufacturing tangible personal property |
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| Net difference paid for all automotive vehicles, truck trailers, semi-trailers and house trailers | |
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RATES |
| General Rate | |
| Net difference paid for machines,
machinery, and equipment used in planting, cultivating and harvesting farm products |
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| Machines and parts and attachments
for machines used in manufacturing tangible personal property |
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| Net difference paid for all automotive vehicles, truck trailers, semi-trailers and house trailers | |
If sales are made and delivered to consumers outside the corporate limits of the Town of McIntosh but within the police jurisdiction, the rates of tax are one-half the new rates shown above.
The Law requires that the Town of McIntosh taxes be collected, reported and remitted in the same manner as the State Taxes. When you file and pay electronically, the Town of McIntosh sales and use taxes are to be included on the electronic city/county tax return assigned to you (City and County Tax Return, form 9501). Simply enter the gross sales/purchases and deductions, and all calculations will be done automatically for you. You may file this tax online through the Internet at www.ador.state.al.us/salestax/efiling.html, or through the telephone by calling toll free 1-800-828-1727. Telephone-filers should use Locality Code 9462.
Please direct all questions regarding the Town of McIntosh sales and use tax to this office.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Sales, Use & Business Tax Division
P. O. Box 327710
Montgomery, Alabama 36132-7710
(334) 242-1490