Alabama § 45-11-245.05 - Collection of Taxes.

§ 45-11-245.05. Collection of Taxes.

(a) The governing body of the county shall administer and collect the taxes herein authorized to be levied and collected, or shall cause such taxes to be administered and collected by the State Department of Revenue or a private collection agency at the same time and in the same manner as the state sales tax and state use tax are collected, pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of Sections 11-3-11.2 and 11-3-11.3. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the governing body of the county or other collection agency shall have the same rights, remedies, power, and authority, including the right to adopt and implement the same procedures, as would be available to the State Department of Revenue if the taxes herein authorized were being administered, enforced, and collected by the State Department of Revenue. The governing body of the county may retain or may pay to the State Department of Revenue or a private collection agency, as its fee for the cost of collecting such taxes, an amount not to exceed five percent of the proceeds of such taxes so collected; provided, if the governing body of the county or the State Department of Revenue shall administer and collect the taxes the amount retained by the governing body or paid to the State Department of Revenue shall not exceed the actual cost of collection, whichever is less.

(b) With respect to the taxes herein authorized to be levied and imposed by it, the county shall be deemed to be a self-administered county, as that term is defined in Section 40-2A-3.