SB225 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Hank Sanders
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Federal income tax deduction eliminated from Alabama gross income, state sales tax on food removed, individual income tax standard deductions, personal exemptions, and dependent exemptions, increased, const. amend.
Description: Currently, federal income taxes, standard deductions, personal exemptions, and dependent exemptions are deductible from gross income prior to computation of Alabama income tax liability.
Also, the state levies sales taxes upon the sale of food items.
This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to eliminate the deductibility of federal income taxes from Alabama gross income for individual taxpayers; to increase individual income tax standard deductions, personal exemptions, and dependent exemptions; and to remove the state sales tax on food items.
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation Education