Relating to municipal occupational license taxes; to add Section 11-51-91.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce any municipal occupational license tax greater than one percent based on an annual reduction in the tax until the tax would be one percent; to provide that any occupational license tax levied by any municipality would not apply to any person performing an occupation in the police jurisdiction of the municipality or on any property annexed into the municipality after January 1, 2023; to provide for a referendum under certain conditions in certain counties in which two or more municipalities levied an occupational tax greater than one percent on January 1, 2023; to prohibit a municipality from levying a new occupational license tax or increasing the rate of any existing municipal occupational license tax; to provide for certain exceptions from any occupational taxes for certain temporary workers and for severance pay; to specify the power of a municipality pursuant to Section 11-51-90 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to license an exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession only within the corporate limits and jurisdiction of the municipality, to further provide for refunds and collections of the license fees and taxes, and to provide that these provisions are retroactive and declaratory of existing law.
Summary
Municipalities, occupational tax, reduced on annual basis to one percent, referendum under certain conditions in any county in which two or more municipalities have tax over one percent on January 1, 2023, occupational tax limited to activities in municipalities.
Bill status
died
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced Mar 7, 2023
Last action May 31, 2023
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Mar 21, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
upper
Mar 21, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (County and Municipal Government)
upper
Mar 7, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (County and Municipal Government)
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Andrew Jones
RRepublican
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