SB286 Alabama 2012 Session

This bill would require a municipality or county that issues a business license to collect certain information from the licensee and transmit the information electronically to the Alabama Department of Revenue

This bill would require the department to cross-check the information with its sales tax records to determine whether the business is collecting and paying any required sales tax

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue

To require a municipality or county that issues a business license to collect certain information from the person licensed; to require each municipality or county to transmit the information electronically to the Alabama Department of Revenue; to require the department to cross-check the information with its sales tax records to determine whether the business is collecting and paying the required sales tax; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds under Amendment 621 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.