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API fighting to protect overtime tax cut for those ‘trying to work a little harder’ in Alabama
January 14, 2025 // “[T]he idea is, when people are trying to provide for their family working extra time, why would we tax them? Why would the state tax them for that work at a higher rate? And so yeah, that overtime tax elimination was accomplished in 2023 and it has a 2025 sunset, which means that it goes away, meaning that the tax comes back in 2025 unless the legislature act,” Smith said. “And so we’re advocating that the legislature actually makes that permanent, because we believe in the concept of work and the fact that there is dignity in work, and we don’t think that the state should be charging people extra for trying to work a little harder.”