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Audit finds no issues; board hears financial update, online-sales-tax gap
Summary
State auditors issued unmodified opinions and reported no findings for the 2025 fiscal year; district finance staff told the board that local property and car-tag revenues are healthy but online-sales-tax (SSUT) receipts are being lost—an estimated $5.5 million the district does not currently receive.
Taylor Carter, audit manager with the Alabama Examiners of Public Accounts, told the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education on April 27 that the audit of the district—or the year ending Sept. 30, 2025 produced unmodified opinions on both the financial statements and major federal programs and that "we reported no findings in our report." The audit covered the district's Title I grants, 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the child nutrition cluster; the audit report was released March 27, 2026 and is available on the examiners' website, Carter said.
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