Editing Birmingham, Alabama (section)

===Taxes and government===
Birmingham's sales tax, which also applies fully to groceries, is 10%, making it the highest tax rate of the nation's 100 largest cities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/ |title=Sales Tax Rates in Major U.S. Cities |date=August 18, 2021 |publisher=[[Tax Foundation]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml |title=American FactFinder |publisher=Factfinder2.census.gov |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref>

Although [[2011 Jefferson County Alabama Bankruptcy|Jefferson County's bankruptcy filing]] was the largest government bankruptcy in U.S. history in 2011, Birmingham remains solvent.<ref name=JeffBankrupt>{{cite news |last=Wright |first=Barnett |url=https://www.al.com/spotnews/2011/11/jefferson_county_files_for_lar.html |title=Jefferson County files for largest bankruptcy in U.S. history |work=[[The Birmingham News]] |date=November 10, 2011}}</ref>