LAFAYETTE
 
TO: ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, AND CORPORATIONS making sales at retail and purchasing tangible personal property for use, storage, or other consumption in the City of LaFayette, Alabama, and its police jurisdiction (located in Chambers County).

On January 24, 2005, the governing body of the City of LaFayette adopted Ordinance No. 403, increasing the rates of the City of LaFayette’s sales and use tax. The increased rates of sales and use tax are effective March 1, 2005, as follows:

Sales & Use Taxes
OLD
RATES
NEW
RATES
General Rate
2.000
3.000
Admissions to places of amusement and entertainment
2.000
3.000
Retail Selling Price of food for human consumption sold through vending machines
2.000
3.000
Net difference paid for machines, machinery, and equipment used in planting,
cultivating and harvesting farm products
1.000
3.000
Machines and parts and attachments for machines used in manufacturing tangible
personal property
1.000
3.000
Net difference paid for all automotive vehicles, truck trailers, semi-trailers and house trailers
1.000
3.000

If sales are made and delivered to consumers outside the corporate limits of the City of LaFayette but within the police jurisdiction, the rates of tax are one-half the new rates shown above.

The Law requires that the City of LaFayette tax be collected from your customers in the same manner as the State Tax. When you file and pay electronically, the City of LaFayette 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 these taxes 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 9466.

Please direct all questions regarding the City of LaFayette 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

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