Alabama State Tax Rulings
Free plain-English summaries of state tax letter rulings and advisory opinions issued in Alabama, with full citations and the original source on every page.
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When a state, county, city, and industrial development authorities give a company a free plant site, cash reimbursements, grants, and other incentives to locate a factory in Alabama, is the value of those inducements taxable as corporate income — or excludible as a gift?
Excludible as gifts. To induce Company A to build a production facility in Alabama, the State, a county, a city, and two industrial development authorities signed agreements giving Company A a free pl…
When a company ships everything into Alabama from out of state and makes few Alabama sales, does the corporate income tax 'throwback rule' overstate its Alabama sales factor — and can it apportion on a destination basis instead? And how is it classified for franchise tax?
The Department granted relief. Company A (an out-of-state corporation with a new Alabama distribution facility) showed that Alabama's income-tax 'throwback rule' — which attributes a sale to Alabama w…
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These are official tax letter rulings and advisory opinions issued by Alabama's revenue authority in response to questions from specific taxpayers about how the tax law applies to their facts. A ruling is binding on the department only for the taxpayer who requested it and cannot be relied on by anyone else, but it is strong evidence of how the state reads the law. Every ruling above has a plain-English question and short answer, plus a link to the full original source.