If this is your first time to claim an income tax credit, you will need to create a My Alabama Taxes (MAT) account through the Alabama Department of Revenue website, myalabamataxes.alabama.gov. If you have claimed credits in the past, you can skip this step and log in with the username and password you have already established.

Things you will need to set up a MAT account:

• Your Social Security Number or EIN# for businesses
• Your Alabama Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) from your previous year's state tax return (or two years prior). Your federal AGI will not work.

Step 1: Go to myalabamataxes.alabama.gov

Step 2: On the ADOR homepage, click on "New User? Sign up here." below the login boxes

Step 3: Select the account type from the drop-down list.

-Corporations, select "Business Income Tax"

-Add your employer identification number and your Alabama AGI from your previous year's state tax return, then select "Validate"

-Individuals, select "Individual Income Tax"

-Add your social security number and your Alabama AGI from your previous year's state tax return, then select "Validate"

Step 4: Create a username, password, and secret question/answer

Step 5: Enter your personal contact information

Step 6: Choose to allow third party access or not

Step 7: A print/save confirmation screen will appear. Please print for your records and make a note of your username and password

Step 8: An authorization code for your intial login will be emailed to you and may take up to 24 hours. Once you receive your authorization code, log on to myalabamataxes.alabama.gov and validate your account.

You are now done with the My Alabama Taxes account creation process.