Alabama has a state general sales tax of 4.00%, plus any additional local city and county taxes. As of August 2015, the highest total general sales tax rate in Alabama is in the portions of Arab that are in Cullman County, which total to 13.5%. Alabama is one of several states that do not exempt food from state taxes.
Cast: Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie, Alex Kendrick, Michael Jr. , Beth Moore, Alena Pitts, Dave Blamy Director: Alex Kendrick Genres: Drama
| August 10, 2011. Boiler room scams play on human fallibilities of greed and gullibility. As well as being an uncomfortably hot and stuffy room in a home, in finance terms a boiler room is also a bad place to be. In finance terms, boiler rooms are illegal high-pressure operations that try to sell worthless â or even non-existent â shares to investors. The term is part of popular culture thanks to a 2000 film Boiler Room about a fictional stockbroking firm in the United States. Boiler rooms are one of more than a dozen common investment scams the Canadian Securities Administrators warn against. A boiler room scam is relatively simple and plays on human fallibilities of greed and gullibility.