Alabama Administrative Code
Title 810 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Chapter 810-6-1 - GROSS PROCEEDS OF SALES; GROSS RECEIPTS; WHOLESALE SALES, SALES AT WHOLESALE; RETAIL SALES, SALES AT RETAIL; AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES
Section 810-6-1-.12 - Automotive Vehicles

1. The term "automotive vehicles" as used in the Sales and Use Tax laws shall mean and include, but shall not be limited to, automobiles, trucks, buses, tractors (crawler and pneumatic tired types), motorcycles, motorscooters, automotive industrial trucks, Ross Carriers, lift trucks, locomotive cranes, airplanes, tugs, motorboats with built-in motors, boats with outboard type motors attached thereto by attachments intended to be permanent rather than readily removable and which motors are controlled with remote controls built on or into the hull of said boat.

(2) In addition to the vehicles listed above, Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 40-23-1(a)12 and 40-23-60(12), "automotive vehicles" to include power shovels, drag lines, crawler cranes, ditchers and similar machines which are self-propelled, but which are not primarily used as instruments of conveyance. Equipment of this class is to be considered as falling within the automotive vehicle class treated for sales or use tax purposes the same as automobiles, trucks, buses, or tractors; provided, however, self-propelled machines which qualify as farm machines (see Rule 810-6-4-.07 Farm Machines, Machinery, and Equipment) or mining machines (see Rule 810-6-2-.43 Machines Used in Mining, Quarrying, Manufacturing, Compounding, and Processing) are taxed at the rate of tax prescribed for equipment in those respective classes. §§ 40-23-1(a)12, 40-23-60(12), 40-23-2(4), and 40-23-61(c)