(a) In addition to all other taxes now imposed by law, there is hereby levied and imposed a fee on the wages, as defined in this division, paid by the employer to employees engaged in skilled labor in the performance of a construction contract or job in the State of Alabama, which fee shall be assessed, collected, and paid quarterly at the rate and as specified in subsection (b) and for each year as hereinafter provided.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 41-10-728

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Each employer subject to this division shall remit to the department a fee for the purpose of funding a program providing for the recruitment of, and training opportunities for, new construction craft trade labor in an amount equal to nine one-hundredths of one percent of the Alabama wages paid during the preceding quarter to all employees of the employer engaged in skilled labor under a construction contract or on a job located in this state for the first five quarters following May 18, 2009.
(c) Following the first five quarters following May 18, 2009, the receipts of the fee, less cost of collection for the second through fifth quarters, shall be tabulated and the fee rate shall be adjusted in order for the aggregate net collections for the subsequent four quarters to amount to one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000), and the revised fee rate shall be the fee rate utilized for each quarterly period thereafter.
(d) The fee levied by this division shall be remitted in a manner and on forms prescribed by the department.
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