Alabama Code 40-21-6. Factors to be considered in determining true value of entire property
Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-21-6
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- property: includes both real and personal property. 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
Insofar as the other evidence and information adduced before said department does not make it appear to said department improper or unjust for it to do so, the said department shall, in fixing the true value of the entire property, tangible and intangible, of any company, corporation, association or individual embraced within the provisions of this title, consider as a factor the average net earnings, averaged over a period of five years, and also take as a basis therefor the aggregate average market value or true value for the preceding year of all its shares of stock and add thereto the average market or true value for the preceding year of its entire indebtedness secured by any mortgage, lien or other charge upon its property and assets, and the sum or sums so produced shall be treated and considered a factor in ascertaining the true value of said entire property, tangible and intangible, for purpose of ad valorem taxation. The department may likewise consider the value of the individual units and items of property and the sum of the values of such units or items.