Monday, the City of Hoover joined a growing coalition of Alabama cities in a federal lawsuit challenging the Alabama Department of Revenue's administration of the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT). The move follows a unanimous vote of the Hoover City Council at their November council meeting.

Hoover and Mobile are the latest cities to join the suit, along with Tuscaloosa , Mountain Brook and Montgomery, seeking to challenge what the cities describe as an inequitable distribution formula that diverts tax dollars away from the communities that produce them into other parts of the state.

"Hoover residents generate millions of dollars in online sales tax revenue every year, yet much of that money is being redistributed across the state instead of coming back home to suppo

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