Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.385 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-56.385
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.385
Status: in_force

(1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be issued a distinctive license tag for any motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a supporter of the Mississippi's Toughest Kids Foundation. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Mississippi's Toughest Kids Foundation, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2014, any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to the Mississippi's Toughest Kids Foundation.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-33-41 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-33-41
Status: in_force

The administration of this article is hereby vested in the Department of Revenue, and it shall have the power and the authority necessary to secure compliance with its provisions uniformly throughout the state. The department shall, in addition to its general duties of administration of the article, do the specific things set out in this section:

(a) It shall adopt and issue to tax assessors, clerks, boards of supervisors, and all other officers or offices to which this article applies, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the article, affecting the applications and all proceedings, records, hearings and other pertinent subjects, relating to property for which a homestead exemption is claimed; and such rules and regulations shall be observed by such officers, boards and offices, in all respects, and in the performance of any and all duties imposed and powers granted by this article.

(b) It shall prescribe the form of and furnish suitable application forms, or blanks, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article, and shall deliver to each assessor a sufficient number of such blanks for the use of homeowners.

(c) It shall have authority and it shall be its duty to examine all applications for homestead exemption allowed under this article, to determine if the provisions of the article have been complied with by the applicant, the tax assessor, the board of supervisors, the clerk, and all others, and if the exemptions have been lawfully allowed; and it shall reject for reimbursement of tax loss any exemption allowed by the board which does not conform to the requirements of law in every substantial particular or for which no application has been sent to the department as required in Section 27-33-35(a) , and shall correct or have corrected any errors; and the tax loss to be reimbursed shall be adjusted to accord with the findings of the department.

When an application is rejected, notice thereof shall be given as provided by this section, and the acceptance or objection by the board shall be determined as provided by Section 27-33-37(k) .

(d) It shall have authority to examine the assessment rolls, any account register, file, document, record or paper relating to receipts and disbursements of the taxing unit or any and all matters relating to homestead exemptions allowed and tax losses to be reimbursed. It shall also have the authority to examine any report or return received by the department to verify any claims made on homestead exemption applications.

(e) It shall have the authority to summon and examine under oath any officer or other person with respect to any matter bearing upon the exemption of a home or homes, and to do any and all other things necessary and proper to ascertain the facts with respect to any application or claim for homestead exemption; and it may require the board to furnish any information or document necessary to the performance of its duties or the correct determination of any question before it to which the board is a party.

(f) The reimbursement for the annual tax loss to the taxing units shall be due and payable in two (2) installments; the first on March 1 and the second on September 1 of each year. The clerk's certificate of tax loss when in accord with the supplemental roll and the applications as filed with the department shall constitute a request by the board for reimbursement of the tax loss. The department shall not pay any reimbursement for annual tax loss to any taxing unit to which Section 27-39-203(7) applies until after the taxing unit has complied with the notice requirement of Section 27-39-203(7) .

(g) It shall, on or before the first day of March each year, certify to the Department of Finance and Administration the amount of the first installment to be paid to each taxing unit in the state, which shall be one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the amount due, with adjustments, which is the amount of the first installment less any charges against the account and plus any credits by reason of previous charges which have been cancelled. However, if the copy of the county land roll, the supplemental roll and the clerk's certificate of tax loss have not been filed with and approved by the department by February 1, the department shall be allowed thirty (30) days after the filing of the rolls and the said certificate in which to perform the duties hereby imposed.

(h) It shall, on or before the first day of September each year, certify to the Department of Finance and Administration the amount of the second installment to be paid to each taxing unit in the state, which shall be the remainder of the amount due with adjustments, which is an amount equal to the first installment less any charges against the account and plus any credits by reason of previous charges which have been cancelled. Adjustments, either charges or credits, against the amount of tax loss to any taxing unit may be made at any time as provided in paragraph (j) of this section.

(i) In the event an adjustment in the amount of the tax loss has been determined by the department, it shall give notice, in writing, to the board of supervisors, which notice shall be considered by the board at its next meeting, regular, adjourned or special. If the board accepts the adjustment, it shall promptly so advise the department, using such form as may be prescribed and furnished by the department. If the board objects to the adjustment, it shall promptly so advise the department, using such forms as may be prescribed and furnished by the department, stating in detail the grounds for its objection and providing any supporting documentation for its objection. Upon receipt of the board's objection, the department will consider same and determine whether or not the objection is valid. All such matters between the board and the department on this objection may be concluded by correspondence, or by personal appearance of the board, or one or more of its members, the clerk, or the assessor, or by a representative of the department present at any meeting of the board. If upon consideration of the objection, the department determines that the application for homestead exemption should be allowed; it will reverse the adjustment resulting from the department's rejection of the application and advise the board of this reversal. If upon consideration of the objection, the department determines that it had properly rejected the application for homestead exemption; it shall advise the board that its objection has been denied by the department. Within thirty (30) days from the date of the notice from the department advising the board that its objection had been denied, the board can appeal this denial of the objection by the department to the Board of Tax Appeals. At any hearing on the appeal by the board to the Board of Tax Appeals on the department's denial of the board's objection to the department's rejection of an application for homestead exemption, the decision of the department to reject the homestead exemption application shall be prima facie correct.

(j) It shall be the duty of the department and it shall have authority to charge the account of any taxing unit with amounts of homestead exemption tax loss claimed by the taxing unit in the certificate of tax loss and the supplemental roll and to deduct the amount from subsequent installments, either first or second. Such charges shall be made when homestead exemption applications are rejected, in whole or in part, for reimbursement of tax loss or when errors are discovered in the supplemental roll or clerk's certificate of tax loss.

(k) The authority of the department to reject an application for reimbursement of tax loss shall not be exercised later than one (1) year after the first day of January of the year next following that in which the application was filed by the applicant; but this limitation shall not apply in cases of fraud, nor where the same person was granted exemption on two (2) separate homes.

Notice of adjustments in tax loss payments and notice of applications rejected shall be given by mail, addressed to the clerk of the board, and the notice directed to the president of the board of supervisors of the county. The date of mailing shall be the date of the notice.

(l) The department shall file and preserve full, complete and accurate records of all tax loss payments and adjustments in tax loss payments made under the provisions of this article, including the certificates of tax loss for a period of three (3) years from the date thereof. The department shall file and preserve for a period of three (3) years all applications for homestead exemption filed with it and copies of all supplemental rolls, counting from the first day of January of the year in which they are required to be executed or made. All records enumerated may be destroyed by the department, when kept for the time required. All other documents, records, papers and correspondence may be destroyed in accordance with approved record retention schedules.

(m) The department shall, on or before June 1 of any year, pay the second installment, or a part thereof, to any school taxing unit upon submission to the department of proof, in the form of a certificate of necessity, executed by the county superintendent of education for the county general school fund, or for a county school district fund, and by the city superintendent of schools for a municipal separate school district, that there is not sufficient money in the maintenance fund of the taxing unit to pay the salaries of teachers and school bus drivers for the current school term. Such payment shall be made as provided in paragraph (h) of this section.

(n) The county tax collectors shall enter, or cause to be entered, all transactions regarding the titling or registration of vehicles into the statewide telecommunications system in compliance with the provisions of Section 63-21-18 . Failure of any tax collector to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall subject the county to the withholding of reimbursements of homestead exemption tax loss as provided under Section 63-21-18 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-303 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 71-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-303
Status: in_force

Upon each person approved for a permit to engage in the business of selling light wines, light spirit products or beer there is hereby imposed, levied and assessed, to be collected and paid as herein provided, annual privilege taxes in the following amounts:

(a)

Retailers--for each place of business․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$ 30.00

(b)

Wholesalers or distributors--for each county․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$ 100.00

(c)

Manufacturers--for each place of business․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$1,000.00

(d)

Brewpubs--for each place of business․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$1,000.00

(e)

Microbrewery--for each place of business․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$1,000.00

(f)

Small craft brewery--for each place of business․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․$1,000.00

Upon each person operating an airline, bus, boat or railroad car upon which light wines, light spirit products or beer may be sold there is hereby imposed, levied and assessed, to be collected and paid, annual privilege taxes of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each airplane, bus, boat or railroad car so operated in this state.

Provided, however, the amount of the privilege tax to be paid for a permit issued for a period of less than twelve (12) months shall be that proportionate amount of the annual privilege tax that the number of months, or part of a month, remaining until its expiration date bears to twelve (12) months, but in no case shall the privilege tax be less than Ten Dollars ($10.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-311 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-311
Status: in_force

Every employer shall file an annual statement of withholding for each employee. The annual statement shall be in the form prescribed by the commissioner and shall be filed with the commissioner and two (2) copies thereof furnished the employee on or before the thirty-first day of January following the close of the calendar year. Provided, if the employment of the employee is terminated during the calendar year, the employer shall furnish such statement to the employee at the time of the termination of employment. Such statement shall show:

(a) The name and withholding account number of the employer;

(b) The name of the employee and his social security account number;

(c) The total compensation paid to the employee; and

(d) The total amount withheld by the employer pursuant to this article for the year or part of a calendar year where the employee worked for less than a full calendar year, and such other information as the commissioner shall require by rule or regulation. The total amount withheld by the employer shall reflect the gross amount withheld by the employer pursuant to this article for such year or part of such calendar year prior to, and expressly excluding, the application of any credit applied and taken by the employer of any tax credit awarded by the Mississippi Development Authority in accordance with the Mississippi Flexible Tax Incentive Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-129 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Section 103-129
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-129
Status: in_force

(1) To enable the Legislative Budget Office to prepare such budget, it shall have full and plenary power and authority to require all general-fund and special-fund agencies and the Mississippi Department of Transportation and the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Mississippi Department of Transportation to file a budget request with such information and in such form and in such detail as it may deem necessary and advisable, and it shall have the further power and authority to reduce or eliminate any item or items of requested appropriation by any state agency in the Legislative Budget Office's recommended budget to the Legislature. However, where any item of requested appropriation shall be so reduced or eliminated, the head of the agency involved shall have the right to appear before the appropriate legislative committee to urge a revision of the budget to restore the item reduced or eliminated. The budget requests shall include a definition of the mission of the agency, a description of the duties and responsibilities of the agency, financial data relative to the various programs operated by the agency and performance measures associated with each program of the agency. The performance measures to be contained within the agency budget request shall be developed by cooperative efforts of the Legislative Budget Office, the Department of Finance and Administration and the agency itself and shall be approved jointly by the Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration prior to inclusion within the agency budget request. The budget requests shall also include in an addendum format a five-year strategic plan for the agency which shall include, but not be limited to, the following items of information:

(a) A comprehensive mission statement,

(b) Performance effectiveness objectives for each program of the agency for each of the five (5) years covered by the plan,

(c) A description of significant external factors which may affect the projected levels of performance,

(d) A description of the agency's internal management system utilized to evaluate its performance achievements in relationship to the targeted performance levels,

(e) An evaluation by the agency of the agency's performance achievements in relationship to the targeted performance levels for the two (2) preceding fiscal years for which accounting records have been finalized.

(2) All agencies enumerated in subsection (1) of this section shall include in their budget requests the following information regarding contract workers for the most recently completed fiscal year:

(a) The name of each worker;

(b) The specific type of services provided;

(c) Hourly rate of compensation, or the basis for compensation if a rate other than the hourly rate is used;

(d) Total gross salary or wages paid; and

(e) Whether the worker is a retired member of the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(3)(a) In addition to any other information required by law, each state agency, general-fund agency and special-fund agency, as defined in Section 27-103-103 , desiring to purchase any vehicle as defined by this section shall submit as part of its budget request to the Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration a detailed justification for the proposed purchase. The Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration shall jointly prescribe the forms and formats to be used by agencies making the requests. Such forms shall require, at minimum, the following information:

(i) The kind of vehicle to be purchased;

(ii) The person to whom the vehicle will be assigned and the employment responsibilities of that person which necessitate a state-owned vehicle;

(iii) Whether the vehicle is a work vehicle or passenger vehicle; and

(iv) If the vehicle is assigned to a pool and not an individual, the purposes for which the pool vehicle is assigned and the names of the anticipated users of the pool vehicle.

(b) The Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration shall offer a recommendation to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on all agency requests for vehicles. In making the recommendation, the Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration may consider break-even analyses for the kind of vehicle requested, the travel patterns of the person for whom the vehicle shall be acquired, and shall determine if there exists surplus vehicles in the possession of other agencies that could be used as a substitute for a new vehicle and why such vehicle should not be used. The purchase of vehicles by an agency shall be a specific line item in the agency's appropriation bill.

(c) If an agency determines that an urgent need exists for a vehicle when it is not feasible to obtain prior legislative approval, the agency may make an emergency request to the Bureau of Fleet Management. Any emergency determination shall be made only upon the existence of extraordinary circumstances. The Bureau of Fleet Management shall make a recommendation to the Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration and shall give notification of such recommendation to the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House and the Chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives Appropriations Committees. The Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration shall have the final authority to approve or disapprove the emergency request. The executive director must set forth specific reasons for approval which shall be a public record. If approved and if adequate funding is available, the agency may purchase a specific vehicle to meet its specific emergency needs. The Bureau of Fleet Management shall report any emergency purchase to the Legislative Budget Office. Any such vehicle shall be subject to the same rules and regulations as provided for nonemergency vehicles.

(d) For purposes of subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the term “ passenger vehicle ” shall mean a vehicle used primarily in transporting agency personnel and the agency's equipment from one location to another. This term shall include only those vehicles for which a license plate or tag is required under Chapter 19, Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

(e) For purposes of subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the term “ work vehicle ” shall mean a vehicle used primarily to perform a work assignment or task while incidentally transporting agency personnel and agency equipment from one location to another. This term shall include only those vehicles for which a license plate or tag is required under Chapter 19, Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

(4) All state agencies, special-fund agencies and general-fund agencies making budget requests under the authority of this section shall include with their budget requests a report of all passenger and work vehicles in their possession. Such report shall detail the persons to whom the vehicles are assigned and the purposes for the vehicles.

(5) Subsections (3) and (4) of this section shall not apply to any vehicle assigned to a sworn officer of the Department of Public Safety and used in undercover operations.

(6) The provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of this section shall not apply to any state institution of higher learning.

(7) The purchase of wireless communication devices as defined in Section 25-53-191 by any state agency, special-fund agency or general-fund agency making budget requests under the authority of this section shall be a specific line item in the agency's appropriation bill.

(8)(a) Beginning with the fiscal year 2017 budget submission, the Legislative Budget Office shall annually publish on its website all budget requests submitted under the authority of this section by state agencies, special-fund agencies and general-fund agencies and shall include all budget units for which budget requests are submitted.

(b) Beginning with the fiscal year 2017 budget submission, any state agency, special-fund agency and general-fund agency making a budget request under the authority of this section shall annually publish on its agency website a copy of the budget request that it submitted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-27 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 57-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-27
Status: in_force

The commissioner and his agents and employees shall have full access, ingress, and egress at all reasonable hours to any place or building where lubricating oil may be received, stored, transported, sold, offered or exposed for sale, manufactured, refined, distilled, compounded, or blended. The commissioner and his agents and employees shall have the right to open and inspect any case, package, or other container, and any tank, pump, tank car or storage tank in which lubricating oil is kept and enter upon any barge, vessel, or other vehicle transporting lubricating oil and, with instruments conforming to the weights and measures adopted by the United States Bureau of Standards, check any measuring device or volume of weight of the contents of any such container.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-11 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 55-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-11
Status: in_force

Any person in business as a distributor of gasoline or who acts as a distributor of gasoline, as defined in this article, shall pay for the privilege of engaging in such business or acting as such distributor an excise tax equal to Eighteen Cents (18¢) per gallon until the date specified in Section 65-39-35 , and Fourteen and Four-tenths Cents (14.4¢) per gallon thereafter, on all gasoline and blend stock stored, sold, distributed, manufactured, refined, distilled, blended or compounded in this state or received in this state for sale, use on the highways, storage, distribution, or for any purpose.

Any person in business as a distributor of aviation gasoline, or who acts as a distributor of aviation gasoline, shall pay for the privilege of engaging in such business or acting as such distributor an excise tax equal to Six and Four-tenths Cents (6.4¢) per gallon on all aviation gasoline stored, sold, distributed, manufactured, refined, distilled, blended or compounded in this state or received in this state for sale, storage, distribution or for any purpose.

The excise taxes collected under this section shall be paid and distributed in accordance with Section 27-5-101 .

The tax herein imposed and assessed shall be collected and paid to the State of Mississippi but once in respect to any gasoline. The basis for determining the tax liability shall be the correct invoiced gallons, adjusted to sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit at the refinery or point of origin of shipment when such shipment is made by tank car or by motor carrier. The point of origin of shipment of gasoline transported into this state by pipelines shall be deemed to be that point in this state where such gasoline is withdrawn from the pipeline for storage or distribution, and adjustment to sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit shall there be made. The basis for determining the tax liability on gasoline shipped into this state in barge cargoes and by pipeline shall be the actual number of gallons adjusted to sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit unloaded into storage tanks or other containers in this state, such gallonage to be determined by measurement and/or gauge of storage tank or tanks or by any other method authorized by the commission. The tank or tanks into which barge cargoes of gasoline are discharged, or into which gasoline transported by pipeline is discharged, shall have correct gauge tables listing capacity, such gauge tables to be prepared by some recognized calibrating agency and to be approved by the commission.

The tax levied herein shall accrue at the time gasoline is withdrawn from a refinery in this state except when withdrawal is by pipeline, barge, ship or vessel. The refiner shall pay to the commission the tax levied herein when gasoline is sold or delivered to persons who do not hold gasoline distributor permits. The refiner shall report to the commission all sales and deliveries of gasoline to bonded distributors of gasoline. The bonded distributor of gasoline who purchases, receives or acquires gasoline from a refinery in this state shall report such gasoline and pay the tax levied herein.

Gasoline imported by common carrier shall be deemed to be received by the distributor of gasoline, and the tax levied herein shall accrue, when the car or tank truck containing such gasoline is unloaded by the carrier.

With respect to distributors or other persons who bring, ship, have transported, or have brought into this state gasoline by means other than through a common carrier, the tax accrues and the tax liability attaches on the distributor or other person for each gallon of gasoline brought into the state at the time when and at the point where such gasoline is brought into the state.

The tax levied herein shall accrue on blend stock at the time it is blended with gasoline. The blender shall pay to the commission the tax levied herein when blend stock is sold or delivered to persons who do not hold gasoline distributor permits. The blender shall report to the commission all sales and deliveries of blend stock to bonded distributors of gasoline. The bonded distributor of gasoline who purchases, receives or acquires blend stock from a blender in this state shall report blend stock and pay the tax levied herein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-315 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 105-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-315
Status: in_force

(1) Any financial institution in a county, or in an adjoining county where there is no financial institution in the county qualifying, whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successors to that insurance corporation may qualify as a county depository, if the institution qualifies as a public funds depository under Section 27-105-5 or a public funds guaranty pool member under Sections 27-105-5 and 27-105-6 . The qualified financial institution shall secure those deposits by placing qualified securities on deposit with the State Treasurer as provided in Section 27-105-5 .

(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any financial institution whether or not meeting the prescribed ratio requirement whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successors to that insurance corporation, may receive county funds in an amount not exceeding the amount that is insured by that insurance corporation and may qualify as a county depository to the extent of that insurance.

(3) For purposes of the foregoing subsection (2), a deposit or investment shall be within the amount that is insured by that insurance corporation if the deposit or investment is made on the following conditions:

(a) The financial institution arranges for the investment of the funds in interest-bearing accounts in one or more banks or savings and loan associations wherever located in the United States, for the account of the public depositor;

(b) The full amount of the principal and accrued interest of each such interest-bearing account is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;

(c) The financial institution acts as custodian for the public depositor with respect to the funds invested in the public depositor's account; and

(d) At the same time that such interest-bearing accounts are invested, the financial institution receives an amount of deposits from customers of other financial institutions located in the United States equal to or greater than the amount of the funds invested by the public depositor through the financial institution.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-39 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Section 51-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-39
Status: in_force

Any person objecting to any portion or portions of the said motor vehicle assessment schedule affecting him or her directly shall file a written objection and claim for adjustment, in duplicate, with the municipal board. The motor vehicle owner shall set forth therein in detail the grounds for his objection and claim for adjustment, with a full and complete identifiable description of the subject motor vehicle.

If the municipal board is of the opinion that the objection and claim for adjustment of the motor vehicle owner has sufficient merit then it shall make whatever adjustment on such claim as in its judgment is fair and equitable; if, on the contrary, the municipal board is of the opinion that the said objection to the proposed assessment does not have sufficient merit then the said board shall disapprove the claim, and the claimant shall be so notified.

If the municipal board approves a claim for the reduction of a proposed assessed value of any specific motor vehicle, then a minute record of such action shall be made by the clerk of said board and a certified copy of such action shall be furnished the tax collector, and in making his report the tax collector shall cite on the ad valorem tax receipt and in his report the minute book and page as legal reason for such reduction of assessed value on any such motor vehicle. Excepting, as hereinabove provided, the tax collector is without legal authority to vary from the adopted assessment schedule in collecting such taxes on any specific motor vehicle.

Any taxpayer dissatisfied with any portion of the assessment schedule directly affecting him may pay the resulting tax under protest, at time of payment, and sue for recovery of all or any portion of the tax paid. This recourse is available, however, only to the taxpayer who filed objection and adjustment claim to the proposed assessment during the time set for filing such objection, as provided hereinabove, excepting in cases where the cause for such protest originated subsequent to the date for filing such objection.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-97 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 51 / Section 107-97
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-97
Status: in_force

No application for loans or grants under authority of Sections 27-107-91 through 27-107-105 shall be filed after April 30, 1975, and no application for a loan or grant shall be approved after June 30, 1975.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-545 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 55-545
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-545
Status: in_force

Each distributor of special fuel shall maintain and keep for a period of three (3) years a record of all special fuel purchased, received, procured, manufactured, refined, compounded, used, sold, stored or delivered within this state by such distributor, together with invoices, bills of lading, and other pertinent records and papers as may be reasonably required by the commission.

It shall be the duty of every person purchasing special fuel from a distributor of special fuel or other person for the purpose of sale or distribution to maintain and keep for a period of three (3) years a record of all special fuel received, together with delivery tickets, invoices, bills of lading and such other records as the commission may require.

All sales made by a distributor of special fuel, other than retail sales from a service station, shall be evidenced in writing, signed by the seller, or his agent, shall bear the date of purchase, name and address of the purchaser and the seller, and shall show the kind and quantity of the product purchased. Sales tickets and invoices made to cash shall not be considered as complying with the terms of this article.

If, in the normal conduct of business of a distributor of special fuel or purchaser, the records of such distributor or purchaser are maintained and kept at an office outside this state, it shall be a sufficient compliance with this section if the records shall be made available for audit and examination by the commission at such office located outside Mississippi. If a distributor or purchaser fails or refuses to permit the commission or any of its employees to check and audit its records during the usual business hours of the day, the commission shall have authority to subpoena said records and have them brought to the office of the commission within ten (10) days after the subpoena is served on the distributor of special fuel or purchaser.

If a distributor of special fuel or purchaser fails to maintain adequate records, or if an audit of the records of said distributor or purchaser, or any report filed by him or any other information discloses that taxes are due and unpaid, the commission shall make assessments of taxes, damages and interest from any information available, which shall be prima facie correct.

All actions by this state for the recovery of additional amounts claimed as tax due under this article must be commenced within a period of three (3) years from the date of the filing of the required report with the commission, provided that in the case of a fraudulent or false report with intent to evade tax or of a failure to file a report, action may be commenced at any time. However, when an examination of a taxpayer's records to verify returns made under this article has been initiated and the taxpayer notified thereof either by certified mail or personal delivery of a notice by an agent of the commissioner, within the thirty-six-month examination period provided herein, the determination of the correct tax liability may be made by the commission after the expiration of said thirty-six-month examination period, provided that said determination shall be made with reasonable promptness and diligence.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-503 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 51 / Section 55-503
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-503
Status: in_force

It is declared to be the purpose and intention of the Legislature to impose an excise tax to provide highways, streets and roads on all persons engaged in business as distributors of special fuel in this state, computed at the rates stated in this article, subject to the exemptions and refunds herein enumerated; to inquire into all violations; and to impose and inflict the penalties herein provided; and especially are the chancery courts of this state authorized and empowered to require any and all persons to disclose and discover full information with reference to their dealing in and handling of special fuel as herein provided. Any and all persons making the disclosures and discoveries prayed for by any bill filed in the chancery courts of the State of Mississippi shall be, and are, hereby given full and complete immunity from all fines and jail sentences imposed by this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-1 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 71-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-1
Status: in_force

This article and the terms and provisions hereof shall be administered and enforced by the Department of Revenue, hereinafter referred to as the “State Tax Commission,” the “commission” or the “department”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-59-31 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 59-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-59-31
Status: in_force

No person shall operate or cause to be operated, upon the highways of this state, a motor vehicle or motor vehicles that use or are capable of using compressed gas as a motor fuel, when such person has not paid the taxes levied in this chapter and the motor vehicle does not display a compressed gas user's decal.

Any person who does not file an application to obtain a compressed gas user's decal within fifteen (15) days from the date of the installation of the compressed gas carburetion equipment or the acquisition of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles with such equipment attached or who fails to file a renewal application within fifteen (15) days after the expiration of the compressed gas user's decal shall be liable for the full amount of the annual privilege tax or prepaid portion thereof and a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) of the taxes levied herein may be added as damages.

If any county tax collector shall enforce the collection of any delinquent annual privilege tax or annual permit fee, together with the penalty thereon required by law, then such county tax collector shall be entitled to one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the penalty. The fee shall be forfeited by the county tax collector if he shall fail to forward any application and remittance within fifteen (15) days of receipt by him.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-505 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 53 / Section 55-505
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-505
Status: in_force

The words, terms and phrases as used in this article shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) “ Special fuel ” means kerosene, diesel fuel, fuel oils, and any petroleum fuel or any other product other than gasoline or compressed gas which is usable as fuel in an internal combustion engine, and any combustible liquid other than gasoline or compressed gas used or capable of being used as a fuel in aircraft. The term “special fuel” shall not include racing gasoline as defined in Section 27-55-5 .

(b) “ Bunker oil ” means a residual product obtained in the refining of crude petroleum intended for use for the generation of heat in a firebox or furnace when its flash point, as determined by use of the Pensky-Martens tester, shall not be less than one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit and when its viscosity at one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit shall not be less than one hundred fifty (150) seconds when determined by use of the Saybolt Universal Tubes.

(c) “ Person ” means any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, or any group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context.

(d) “ Distributor of special fuel ” means:

(i) Any person importing special fuel into this state;

(ii) Any person who shall receive, purchase, acquire, use, store or sell any special fuel in this state on which the excise tax hereinafter imposed by this article has not been paid;

(iii) Any person exporting special fuel;

(iv) Any person engaged in the distribution of special fuel by tank car or tank truck or both; however, no person may qualify as a distributor of special fuel for the sole purpose of using special fuel, as defined in this article, as a fuel to propel a vehicle or vehicles owned or operated by him on the highways of this state; and

(v) All persons meeting the definition of “ refiners ,” “ processors ,” “ terminal operator ,” “ blenders ” and any person licensed to sell motor fuel in another state or jurisdiction who is authorized by that state or jurisdiction to collect the special fuel excise tax imposed by this article.

(e) “ Bonded distributor of special fuel ” means any person holding a valid distributor of special fuel permit issued by the Department of Revenue.

(f) “ Refiner ” or “ processor ” means every person who shall receive, produce, manufacture, refine, distill, blend or compound special fuel in this state, when such person shall engage in any business incident to or necessary for refining or processing petroleum products in this state; provided further, that such refiner or processor must have at least two (2) ten-thousand-gallon or larger tanks for product storage, and the blending or mixing process produces a finished product that has entirely different physical and chemical properties from the original products.

(g) “ For nonhighway purposes ” means special fuel which is not used for operating motor vehicles or motor-propelled machines of any description along the public roads, streets, alleys or highways of this state as defined in this article.

(h) “ Highway ” means every way or place of whatever nature, including public roads, toll roads, streets and alleys of this state generally open to the use of the public or to be opened or reopened to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, and notwithstanding that the same may be temporarily closed for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair. The confines of a highway shall include the entire width and length of the right-of-way.

(i) “ Commission ” or “ department ” means the Department of Revenue of the State of Mississippi, acting either directly or through its duly authorized officers, agents or employees.

(j) “ Terminal ” means a tank farm within the State of Mississippi with storage capacity for the receipt of a full barge delivery or common carrier pipeline delivery of taxable petroleum products when such products are to be distributed within the state.

(k) “ Marine dealer ” means any person selling special fuel from marine or dockside storage facilities when such special fuel is for use in boats, vessels, barges or ships.

(l) “ United States government ” means and includes all purchasing officers of the Armed Forces of the United States and the United States Property and Fiscal Officer for the State of Mississippi or any other state appointed pursuant to Section 708, Title 32, United States Code , when purchasing special fuel with federal funds for the account of and use by a component of the Armed Forces as herein defined.

(m) “ Armed Forces ” means and includes all components of the Armed Forces of the United States including the Army National Guard, the Army National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard and the Air National Guard of the United States, as those terms are defined in Section 101, Title 10, United States Code , and any other reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States enumerated in Section 261, Title 10, United States Code .

(n) “ Motor vehicle ” means every vehicle designed, constructed for or used on the highways of this state which is self-propelled, except a farm tractor using the highways solely in hauling or transporting farm products of the soil from the farm to a gin or market when the title to such products is still in the producer, or a farm tractor used in transporting fertilizer or food to a farm when the title to such products is still in the user.

(o) “ Consumer ” means, in addition to its ordinary meaning, a person who purchases undyed diesel fuel to be used for nonhighway purposes and who does not resell such undyed diesel fuel.

(p) “ Retail dealer ” means any person who operates a retail station.

(q) “ Dyed diesel fuel ” means diesel fuel that is dyed in accordance with United States Environmental Protection Agency or Internal Revenue Service requirements.

(r) “ Dyed kerosene ” means kerosene that is dyed in accordance with United States Environmental Protection Agency or Internal Revenue Service requirements.

(s) “ Undyed diesel fuel ” means diesel fuel that does not meet the dyeing requirements prescribed by United States Environmental Protection Agency or Internal Revenue Service Regulations.

(t) “ Fuel oil ” means a general classification for one of the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations. For the purposes of this article, “fuel oil” is No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 fuel oils and No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 diesel fuels.

(u) “ Blender ” shall mean any person who blends or compounds any product to produce special fuel.

(v) “ Terminal operator ” means any person who owns, operates or otherwise controls a terminal.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-41.1 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 51-41.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-41.1
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section:

(a) “Motorcycle” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 27-19-3 .

(b) “ Motor home ” means an individually owned private carrier of passengers as defined in Section 27-19-3 whose primary purpose is to provide transportation and human living facilities, including, at a minimum, sleeping facilities, bath and toilet facilities and food storage and preparation facilities.

(c) “Trailer” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 27-19-3 . The term “trailer” shall not include semitrailers as defined in Section 27-19-3 , other than those that are used for recreational purposes.

(2)(a) From and after July 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007, sixty percent (60%) of the true value of all motorcycles, motor homes and trailers upon which the owner is required to pay the annual highway privilege tax levied in Chapter 19, Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation.

(b) From and after October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008, fifty-five percent (55%) of the true value of all motorcycles, motor homes and trailers upon which the owner is required to pay the annual highway privilege tax levied in Chapter 19, Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation.

(c) From and after October 1, 2008, fifty percent (50%) of the true value of all motorcycles, motor homes and trailers upon which the owner is required to pay the annual highway privilege tax levied in Chapter 19, Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.387 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-56.387
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.387
Status: in_force

(1) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2024, any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state and a member of the Grand Chapter of Mississippi Order of the Eastern Star or the spouse or child of a deceased member, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be entitled to be issued a distinctive license tag for any motor vehicle registered in their name. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the department, with the advice of the Grand Chapter of Mississippi Order of the Eastern Star, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the department. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the department on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he or she must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The department shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the department shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to the Grand Chapter of Mississippi Order of the Eastern Star.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.

(7) In order for a distinctive license tag to be issued under this section, the provisions of Section 27-19-44(3) must be satisfied for the distinctive license tag before July 1, 2027.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.393 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-56.393
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.393
Status: in_force

(1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be issued a distinctive license tag for any motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a supporter of Wilkinson County High School. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Principal of Wilkinson County High School, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2015, any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to Wilkinson County High School.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-109-1 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Section 109-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-109-1
Status: in_force

(1) The provisions of this chapter shall be administered by the State Tax Commission, which shall administer them for the protection of the public and in the public interest in accordance with the policy of this state.

(2)(a) The operator of any cruise vessel or vessel operating within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi shall be required to apply for and obtain a privilege license from the State Tax Commission.

(b) For purposes of this chapter, the operator of any cruise vessel or vessel shall be identified as any owner or lessee which is vested with the authority and responsibility to manage daily operations of any such cruise vessel or vessel.

(c)(i) For purposes of this chapter, the term “ cruise vessel ” shall mean a vessel which complies with all U.S. Coast Guard regulations, having a minimum overall length of one hundred fifty (150) feet and a minimum draft of six (6) feet and which is certified to carry at least two hundred (200) passengers; and the term “ vessel ” shall mean a vessel having a minimum overall length of one hundred fifty (150) feet. The term “ vessel ” shall also mean a “ cruise vessel ” as referred to in Section 27-109-11 . For the purposes of a “ vessel ” as that term is defined in this section, “ navigable waters ” means any rivers, creeks, bayous or other bodies of water within any county in this state bordering on the Mississippi River that are used or susceptible of being used as an artery of commerce and which either in their natural or improved condition are used or suitable for use as an artery of commerce or are used for the docking or mooring of a vessel, notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such rivers, creeks, bayous or other bodies of water by falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land carriage. The term “ cruise vessel ” or “ vessel ” also includes a structure as described in Section 97-33-1(b) .

(ii) For purposes of this subparagraph, the definitions of the words “ person ” and “ gaming license ” shall have the meanings ascribed to those words and terms in Section 75-76-5 . After July 1, 2005, any person possessing a valid gaming license to conduct legal gaming on a cruise vessel or vessel may construct permanent structures upon which to place the vessel or cruise vessel where the licensee has received approval to offer legal gaming. Such permanent structures shall be included within the meanings of the terms “ cruise vessel ” and “ vessel ” under subparagraph (i). In the event that such a gaming licensee constructs permanent structures under this subparagraph, the requirement that a cruise vessel have a minimum draft of six (6) feet shall not apply. This subparagraph shall not authorize any form of inland gaming or the conducting of legal gaming on a vessel or cruise vessel which is not on, in or above water, as contemplated under subparagraph (i) and Section 97-33-1 .

(3) The commission and its agents may:

(a) Inspect and examine all premises on the cruise vessel.

(b) Inspect all equipment and supplies in, upon or about such premises.

(c) Summarily seize and remove from such premises and impound any equipment or supplies for the purpose of examination and inspection.

(d) Demand access to and inspect, examine, photocopy and audit all papers, books and records of applicants and licensees, on their premises, or elsewhere as practicable, and in the presence of the licensee or his agent, respecting all matters affecting the enforcement of the policy or any of the provisions of this chapter.

(4) For the purpose of conducting audits after the cessation of operations by a licensee, the former licensee shall furnish, upon demand of an agent of the commission, books, papers and records as necessary to conduct the audits. The former licensee shall maintain all books, papers and records necessary for audits for a period of one (1) year after the date of the surrender or revocation of his privilege license. If the former licensee seeks judicial review of a deficiency determination or files a petition for a redetermination, he must maintain all books, papers and records until a final order is entered on the determination.

(5) The commission may investigate, for the purpose of prosecution, any suspected criminal violation of the provisions of this chapter. For the purpose of the administration and enforcement of this chapter, the commission and the executive, supervisory and investigative personnel of the commission have the powers of a peace officer of this state.

(6) The commission, or any of its members, has full power and authority to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses at any place within this state, to administer oaths and to require testimony under oath. Any process or notice may be served in the manner provided for service of process and notices in civil actions. The commission may pay such transportation and other expense of witnesses as it may deem reasonable and proper. Any person making false oath in any matter before the commission is guilty of perjury. The commission, or any member thereof, may appoint hearing examiners who may administer oaths and receive evidence and testimony under oath.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.9 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-56.9
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.9
Status: in_force

Upon application by any legal resident of the State of Mississippi who is deaf, the State Tax Commission shall prepare and issue through the county tax collectors a special license plate for not more than one (1) vehicle that is registered in the applicant's name. The initial application shall be accompanied by the certification of a licensed physician that the applicant meets the definition of deaf persons set forth in this section. An applicant for a special license plate shall not be required to pay any fee or charge for the issuance of such license plate separate from or in addition to the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees otherwise required by law to be paid for the issuance of a regular license plate for such vehicle. The design of the special license plate shall be executed in a manner which will alert others that the vehicle is registered in the name of a person who is deaf.

For the purpose of this section, the term “ vehicle ” includes motorcycles, and the term “ deaf ” means any person whose hearing is totally impaired or whose hearing is so seriously impaired as to prohibit the person from understanding oral communication when spoken to in a normal conversational tone.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-53-19 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 45 / Section 53-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-53-19
Status: in_force

Removal of a manufactured home or mobile home after the same has been assessed and such ad valorem tax has not been paid and notice of sale has been served shall be prima facie evidence of an intent on the part of the manufactured or mobile homeowner to avoid payment of taxes, and the county tax collector shall attach the property immediately.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-563 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 55-563
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-563
Status: in_force

The commission is hereby given power and authority to make all rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this article, with reference to all petroleum excise tax provisions and exemptions governing the making of reports and contents of same and doing any and all other duties pertaining to the making of reports and payment of taxes, and such other matters as will, in the judgment of the commission, contribute to a more efficient administration of all the petroleum excise tax provisions of this article. Such rules and regulations, when made, shall have the same binding force and effect as if incorporated in this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-22.24 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-22.24
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-22.24
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Development Authority shall report annually to the Legislature regarding the impact of the credit granted in Section 27-7-22.23 on shipping and economic growth. Each report shall show the overall annual increase in shipping at each port for the most recent year for which data is available and for each of the previous five (5) years. Each report shall estimate the number of jobs created or retained at each port and in businesses related to port activity at each port since January 1, 2005, as compared to the number of similar jobs created during the ten (10) years preceding January 1, 2005. Each report shall state the net economic impact on the state as a result of the tax credit provided for in Section 27-7-22.23 . The Mississippi Development Authority shall file a copy of the report with the Governor, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee of the Legislature on May 1 of each year. The Department of Revenue and all state, county and municipal ports shall cooperate with the Mississippi Development Authority in providing the information required in the annual reports.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.205 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-56.205
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.205
Status: in_force

(1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a member of the John L. Webb Grand High Court, Heroines of Jericho, Prince Hall Affiliated, operating under the M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, upon complying with the motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, and upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional annual fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be entitled to a special license tag which displays the Heroines of Jericho emblem. The distinctive license tag so issued shall display the words “John L. Webb Grand High Court” and shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Officers of the John L. Webb Grand High Court, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. Applicants for such distinctive license tags shall present to the issuing official documentation from the John L. Webb Grand High Court, Heroines of Jericho, Prince Hall Affiliated as prescribed by the Department of Revenue showing their membership in the John L. Webb Grand High Court, Heroines of Jericho, Prince Hall Affiliated. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited in a special fund hereby created in the State Treasury to the credit of the John L. Webb Grand High Court, Heroines of Jericho, Prince Hall Affiliated. The funds shall be available for expenditure at the discretion of the John L. Webb Grand High Court.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-59 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 53 / Section 107-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-59
Status: in_force

The Commission of Budget and Accounting with the concurrence of the state bond commission is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) from one or a multiple of “state general fund agencies” or “state special fund agencies” at one time or as required for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 27-107-55 . Such borrowing shall be done by appropriate resolution or order of said commission, and certified copies of each such order spread upon its minutes shall be provided the executive head of the state agency, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general and governor. Funds disbursed by the commission from said loan fund shall be as provided herein. The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-51 through 27-107-61 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-67-8 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Section 67-8
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-67-8
Status: in_force

(1) No examination shall be made of the records of a religious institution, as defined in paragraph (i) of Section 27-67-7 , unless the commissioner shows by reasonable evidence that the religious institution is not operating on a nonprofit basis.

(2) All outstanding claims against a religious institution as defined in paragraph (j) of Section 27-67-7 for unpaid taxes having accrued under the sales or use tax laws on or before the effective date of Section 27-67-7 and this section based upon transactions by such religious institution shall be void and in regards to such transactions for which sales or use taxes are unpaid on or before July 1, 1989, Sections 27-67-7 and 27-67-8 shall be retroactive in effect.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-207 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 29 / Section 103-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-207
Status: in_force

The Working Cash Balance Revolving Fund is abolished. Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) of the balance remaining in the Working Cash Balance Revolving Fund shall be transferred by the State Treasurer into the General Fund and the remainder of such fund shall be transferred by the State Treasurer into the Working Cash-Stabilization Reserve Fund created pursuant to Section 27-103-203 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-73 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 41-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-73
Status: in_force

If the purchaser of land at tax sale shall not immediately pay the amount of his bid, the collector shall offer the land again; and if some person will not then bid the amount of taxes and costs, it shall be struck off to the state, as in other cases; but the first purchaser shall be liable for the amount of his bid, to be collected by suit by tax collector in the name of the state. On the same being collected, the tax collector shall notify the chancery clerk of the county, and the clerk shall strike the said lands from the records of land sold to the state, and shall enter said land on the list of lands sold to individuals to be subsequently dealt with as other lands sold to individuals.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-69-49 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Section 69-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-69-49
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations providing for refunds to dealers of the face value of stamps affixed to any cigarettes which have become unfit for use and consumption, unsalable, or for any other legitimate loss which may occur, upon proof of such loss. Refund is to be made by issuing new stamps of an aggregate value of the tax paid on the goods adjudged to be unfit for use, consumption, unsalable, or any other loss suffered.

(2) The proof of loss required to obtain a refund of the amount so authorized in subsection (1) of this section, shall be in a form prescribed by the commissioner and signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury, his agent or representative, or other person familiar with the facts relied upon, setting out in detail the facts and circumstances under which the loss occurred.

(3) The commissioner shall keep a permanent record of all such refunds made by him, in his office, and shall receive credit for such refunds.

(4) No cigarettes which have been adjudged unfit for use and consumption, or unsalable, shall again be offered for sale in this state, and any person selling or offering to sell, or to give away, any such cigarettes shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-15-215 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-15-215
Status: in_force

All persons liable for privilege taxes imposed by this chapter, who shall fail to procure the license therefor before beginning the business for which a privilege tax is required, or who shall fail to renew, during the month in which it is due, the license on a business for which he has theretofore procured a privilege license, shall in each or either instance, be liable for the amount of the tax required for such business and fifty percent (50%) thereof, and it is hereby made the duty of the commissioner, whose duty it is to collect the tax on such business, to collect the said tax and penalty; and the commissioner, or his duly authorized representative, may make immediate demand upon such dealer for the payment of all such taxes and penalties.

If any taxes and penalties found to be due are not paid on demand, the commissioner, whose duty it is to collect the tax on such business, may forthwith issue a warrant under official seal, directed to the sheriff of any county of the state, commanding him to levy upon and sell the real and personal property of the person owing the tax, found within his county, for the payment of the amount thereof, with added damages, penalties, and cost of entering and executing the warrant, and to return such warrant to the commissioner and pay to him money collected by virtue thereof, by a time to be therein specified, not more than sixty days from the date of the warrant. The sheriff shall, within five days after the receipt of the warrant, file with the circuit clerk of his county a copy thereof, and thereupon the circuit clerk shall enter in the judgment roll, in the column for judgment debtors, the name of the taxpayer mentioned in the warrant, and in appropriate columns, the amount of the tax, or portion thereof, and damages, for which the warrant is issued, and the date when such copy is filed; and thereupon the amount of such warrant or warrants so docketed shall become a lien upon the title to and interest in the real and personal property, including choses in action, of the person against whom it is issued, in the same manner as a judgment duly enrolled in the office of such clerk. The sheriff thereupon shall proceed upon the same in all respects with like effect, and in the same manner prescribed by law in respect to executions issued against property upon judgment or attachment proceedings of a court of record; and shall be entitled to the same fee for his service in executing the warrant as now allowed by law for like service, to be collected in the same manner as provided by law for like service.

The commissioner shall endorse across the face of the license issued the words: “Collected as damages,” showing the amount; and he shall account for all such penalties as he is required to account for privilege taxes collected under this chapter. In addition to the hereinabove described penalties, the delinquent taxpayer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the penalties therefor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.195 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-56.195
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.195
Status: in_force

(1) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2012, any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be issued a distinctive license tag for each motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a member of the Professional Firefighters Association of Mississippi. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Professional Firefighters Association of Mississippi, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. Applicants for such distinctive license tags shall present documentation as prescribed by the Department of Revenue showing their membership in the Professional Firefighters Association of Mississippi. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2009, any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify the total fees collected under this section to the State Treasurer who shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to the Professional Firefighters Association of Mississippi.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.

(7) In order for a distinctive license tag to be issued under this section, the provisions of Section 27-19-44(3) must be satisfied for the distinctive license tag before July 1, 2015.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-65-87 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 65-87
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-65-87
Status: in_force

The administration of this chapter is vested in and shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue, except as otherwise herein provided, and the enforcement of any of the provisions of this chapter in any of the courts of the state shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue who may require the assistance of an act through the Attorney General, prosecuting attorney of any county, or any district attorney, or any attorney for the Department of Revenue, and may with the assent of the Governor, employ special counsel in any county to aid the prosecuting attorney, the compensation of whom shall be fixed by and paid only upon the approval of the Governor; but the Attorney General, district attorney or prosecuting attorney of any county shall receive no fees or compensation for services rendered in enforcing this chapter in addition to the salary paid to such officer.

In case of violation of the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner may decline to prosecute for the first offense, if in his judgment such violation is not willful or flagrant.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-101 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Section 51-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-101
Status: in_force

As used in Sections 27-51-101 through 27-51-107 , unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) “ Private carrier of passengers ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 27-19-3 , but shall not be construed to include motorcycles.

(b) “ Light carrier of property ” means any motor vehicle with a gross weight, as defined in Section 27-19-3 , of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or less that is designed and constructed for the primary purpose of transporting property on the roads and highways.

(c) “ Local taxing district ” means any county, municipality, school district or other local entity that levies an ad valorem tax or for which an ad valorem tax is levied, to fund all or a portion of its budget.

(d) “ State fiscal year ” means the period beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 of the following year.

(e) “ Commission, ” “ State Tax Commission ” or “ department ” means the Department of Revenue.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-9-21 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-9-21
Status: in_force

The executor of an estate of gross value exceeding the amount of the specific exemption provided in Section 27-9-11 shall, within sixty (60) days after the decedent's death or within a like period after qualifying as such, give written notice thereof to the commissioner. Such notice shall show the name of the decedent, the date of death, the name of the attorney and the probable value of the gross estate, also what transfers, if any, the decedent made within two (2) years before his death.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.85 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-56.85
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.85
Status: in_force

In recognition of the patriotic service rendered by Mississippians who are honorably discharged veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam Conflict and were awarded a Vietnam Service Ribbon, any such person is privileged to obtain distinctive motor vehicle license plates or tags for each motor vehicle registered in his name identifying his status as a Vietnam veteran. The State Tax Commission, with concurrence by the State Veterans Affairs Board, shall develop decals to be affixed to the license tag indicating branch and period of military service. The distinctive plates or tags shall be of a color and design designated by the Tax Commission with concurrence by the State Veterans Affairs Board.

The distinctive license plates shall be prepared by the Tax Commission and shall be issued through the tax collectors of the counties in the same manner as are other motor vehicle license plates or tags. An additional annual tag fee of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) shall be collected by the tax collector for such license plates or tags and shall be remitted to the Tax Commission on a monthly basis as prescribed by the commission. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. The State Tax Commission shall deposit such fee to the credit of a fund to be administered by the board overseeing the veterans nursing homes in this state for the benefit of indigent veterans who are residents of such nursing homes.

An applicant for such distinctive plates shall present to the issuing official written evidence of the veteran's service. Such evidence shall include a copy of the applicant's DD-214 form, a Report of Separation from Military Service, a military discharge document, or a written certification of military service from the State Veterans Affairs Board. The distinctive license plates or tags so issued shall be used only upon a personally or jointly owned private passenger vehicle (to include station wagons, recreational motor vehicles and pickup trucks) registered in the name, or jointly in the name, of the person making application therefor, and when issued to such person shall be used upon the vehicle for which issued in lieu of the standard license plate or license tag normally issued for such vehicle.

The distinctive license plates shall not be transferable between motor vehicle owners; and in the event the owner of a vehicle bearing a distinctive plate shall sell, trade, exchange or otherwise dispose of the vehicle, such plate shall be retained by such owner and returned to the tax collector.

In order for a distinctive license tag to be issued under this section, the provisions of Section 27-19-44(2) must be complied with before July 1, 2011.

Distinctive license tags shall not be issued under this section after July 8, 2020. A person issued a distinctive license tag under this section before July 8, 2020, may renew the license tag under Section 27-19-56.524(3) in the manner provided for the issuance and renewal of a tag in Section 27-19-56.524(3) .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-347 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 39 / Section 71-347
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-71-347
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this article, any person who violates any provision of this article, or any rule or regulation promulgated by the commissioner under authority of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this article, or any rules or regulations promulgated by the commissioner under authority of this article, shall forfeit his permit, and shall not thereafter be permitted to engage in any business taxable under the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-31 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 38 / Section 107-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-31
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors, mayor and aldermen or other appropriate municipal governing body, board of trustees of school districts, county board of education, county and state port authorities, county development districts, and other public agencies at the community or state level which qualify for funds and other benefits under the United States “Disaster Relief Act of 1970”, are hereby authorized to do and perform every act and deed necessary by such officers to make possible the receipt and disbursements of all such funds and related benefits made available by said act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-159 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 27 / Section 35-159
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-159
Status: in_force

In all cases where lands have been or which may hereafter be struck off to the state for delinquent taxes and the time for redemption has expired, and said lands have been stricken from the list of state lands for any cause provided by law, the board of supervisors of the county in which said lands are situated may, upon petition of the owner or the assessor or any person interested in the land, change, correct, revise and re-value the assessments of said land for each of the years for which the taxes have not been paid, and the board of supervisors may enter an order directing that such assessments as changed, corrected, revised and/or re-valued shall be entered upon the assessment roll in force for the year in which the order is entered, whereupon the tax assessor, or tax collector in the event the roll is in the hands of the tax collector at the time, shall enter such assessments on the roll in the manner as additional assessments are now made, and the tax collector shall collect the taxes on such assessments as other taxes are collected.

The payment of the taxes as herein provided shall cancel all liens and satisfy all claims of the state, county, levee districts and other taxing districts, against said lands for the taxes for the respective years for which the said taxes are paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-23 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Section 51-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-51-23
Status: in_force

Any person objecting to any portion or portions of the motor vehicle assessment schedule affecting him or her directly shall file a written objection and claim for adjustment, in triplicate, with either the board of supervisors of the county or the municipal board of the municipality or with both such boards, on a form to be designed and supplied by the tax commission. The motor vehicle owner shall set forth therein in detail the grounds for his objection and claim for adjustment, with a full and complete identifiable description of the subject motor vehicle.

If the board of supervisors or the municipal board, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the objection and claim for adjustment of the motor vehicle owner has sufficient merit, then the original and duplicate copies of the said objection and claim together with any recommendation made by either of the said governing boards shall be forwarded to the tax commission for approval or disapproval.

If the tax commission is of the opinion that the said objection contains sufficient merit, then the tax commission shall make whatever adjustment on such claim as in its judgment is fair and equitable; if, on the contrary, the tax commission is of the opinion that the said objection to the proposed assessment does not have sufficient merit then the tax commission shall disapprove the claim. In either case, the tax commission shall return the original copy of the objection and petition to the clerk of the board of supervisors or to the clerk of the municipal board, as the case may be, with its action duly stated thereon. The decision of the tax commission in disapproving such a claim shall be final as between the board of supervisors and/or the municipal board and the tax commission, and the clerk of the respective boards shall then notify the claimant that his adjustment claim has been disapproved by the tax commission.

A petition for adjustment originating in either the county or a municipality of the county, if approved by the tax commission, shall become effective, as approved, in both jurisdictions, and in cases where the county tax collector does not collect said taxes for the municipality, then it shall be the duty of the clerk of the jurisdiction in which the claim for adjustment originated to officially notify the tax collector of the other jurisdiction, by citing the minute record of such action and properly identifying the subject motor vehicle.

If the tax commission approves a claim for the reduction of a proposed assessed value of any specific motor vehicle, then upon receipt of such notice by the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county or by the clerk of the municipal board, as the case may be, a minute record shall be made and a certified copy of such action shall be furnished the tax collector, and in making his report, the tax collector shall cite on the ad valorem tax receipt and in his report the minute book and page as legal reason for such reduction in assessed value on any such motor vehicle. Under no circumstances shall a tax collector vary from the said adopted assessment schedule in calculating and collecting motor vehicle ad valorem taxes unless such petition for reduction has been approved by the tax commission, and the tax collector has filed in his custody written official authority therefor from the clerk of the respective board, and evidence of such action is cited as hereinabove provided. An adjustment of the proposed assessed value of one or more motor vehicles of a certain group or class, under this procedure, shall not affect the proposed assessed value of other motor vehicles of the same group or class.

Any taxpayer dissatisfied with any portion of the assessment schedule directly affecting him may pay the resulting tax under protest and sue for recovery of all or any portion of the tax paid, provided that he requests the tax collector to indicate on the tax receipt at the time the tax is paid that the said tax is being paid under protest. This recourse is available, however, only to the taxpayer who filed objection and adjustment claim to the proposed assessment during the time set for filing such objection, as provided hereinabove, excepting in cases where the cause for such protest originated subsequent to the time for filing such protest.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-21 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 57-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-21
Status: in_force

All administrative provisions of the Mississippi Sales Tax Law, including those which fix damages, penalties and interest for nonpayment of taxes, failure to file returns, and for other noncompliance with the provisions of said chapter, and all other requirements and duties imposed upon taxpayers, shall apply to all persons liable for taxes under the provisions of this article, and the commission shall exercise all the power and authority and perform all the duties with respect to taxpayers under this article as are provided in said sales tax law, except that in cases of conflict, then the provisions of this article shall control.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-81 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 41-81
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-81
Status: in_force

The tax collector shall on or before the first Monday of June transmit to the clerk of the chancery court of the county separate certified lists of the lands struck off by him to the state and that sold to individuals, specifying to whom assessed, the day of the sale, the amount of taxes for which the sale was made and each item of cost incidental thereto, and, where sold to individuals, the name of the purchaser, to be separately recorded by the clerk in books kept by him for that purpose. Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-41-59 , the lists shall vest in the state or the individual purchaser thereof a perfect title to the land sold for taxes, but without the right of possession and subject to the right of redemption; but a failure to transmit or record a list, or a defective list, shall not affect or render the title void. If the tax collector or clerk shall fail to perform the duties herein prescribed, he shall be liable to the party injured by such default in the penal sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), and also on his bond for the actual damages sustained.

The list hereinabove provided shall, when filed with the clerk, be notice to all persons in the same manner as are deeds when filed for record.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-101 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 41-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-41-101
Status: in_force

(1) In the event the tax collector elects to use the provisions of Sections 27-41-101 through 27-41-109 to collect delinquent tax payments on personal property and, upon default of the payment of ad valorem taxes upon personal property upon the due dates prescribed in this chapter or, in the case of mobile or manufactured homes classified as personal property, the due date prescribed in Section 27-53-11 , the tax collector shall give written notice to the taxpayer and to any secured lender demanding the payment of the ad valorem taxes on personal property then remaining in default within twenty (20) days from the date of the delivery of the notice. The notice shall be sent by certified or registered mail to the taxpayer at the address given by the taxpayer to the tax assessor or collector upon registration, or delivered by an employee of the tax collector either to the taxpayer or someone of suitable age and discretion at the taxpayer's place of business or residence. The notice shall be sent by certified or registered mail to the secured lender at the address listed on the State Tax Commission's statewide network at the time the taxes become delinquent if a certificate of title has been issued or the address given on the instruments filed with the chancery clerk granting the lender a security interest in the manufactured home.

(2) If the taxpayer, any person liable for the payment of ad valorem taxes on personal property or the secured lender, if any, fails or refuses to pay the taxes after receiving the notice and demand as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the tax collector may file a notice of a tax lien for such ad valorem taxes with the circuit clerk of the county in which the taxpayer resides or owns property which shall be enrolled as a judgment on the judgment roll.

(3) Immediately upon receipt of the notice of the tax lien for ad valorem taxes on personal property, the circuit clerk shall enter the notice of a tax lien as a judgment upon the judgment roll and show in the appropriate columns the name of the taxpayer as judgment debtor, the name of the tax collector as judgment creditor, the amount of the taxes, interest, fees and costs and the date and time of enrollment. The judgment shall be valid as against mortgagees, pledgees, entrusters, purchasers, judgment creditors, and other persons from the time of filing with the clerk; provided, however, that the preference of a judgment in regard to any personal property upon which the taxes are assessed, excepting motor vehicles as defined by the Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958, and manufactured housing and mobile homes having certificates of title as defined by the Mississippi Motor Vehicle and Manufactured Housing Title Law shall be entitled to preference over all judgments, executions, encumbrances or liens whensoever created upon such personal property. The judgment shall be valid and a preference in the case of manufactured housing and mobile homes having certificates of title if the judgment is for the taxes reflected on the county tax rolls and related fees and charges on that manufactured home or mobile home and the required notice was furnished to the taxpayer and the lien creditor reflected on the certificate of title or chancery clerk's records, as applicable. The amount of the judgment shall be a debt due the county and remain a lien upon all property and rights to property belonging to the taxpayer, both real and personal, including choses in action, with the same force and like effect as any enrolled judgment of a court of record, and shall continue until satisfied. The judgment shall be the equivalent of any enrolled judgment of a court of record and shall serve as authority for the issuance of writs of execution, writs of attachment, writs of garnishment or other remedial writs. The tax collector may issue warrants for collection of ad valorem taxes from such judgments, in lieu of the issuance of any remedial writ by the circuit clerk, as provided in Sections 27-41-103 and 27-41-105 ; provided, however, that the judgment shall not be a lien upon the property of the taxpayer for a longer period than seven (7) years from the date of the filing of the notice of tax lien for ad valorem taxes, damages and interest unless action be brought thereon before the expiration of such time or unless the tax collector refiles such notice of tax lien before the expiration of such time. The judgment shall be a lien upon the property of the taxpayer for a period of seven (7) years from the date of refiling such notice of tax lien unless action be brought thereon before the expiration of such time or unless the tax collector refiles such notice of tax lien before the expiration of such time. There shall be no limit upon the number of times that the tax collector may refile notices of tax liens.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-61-23 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 61-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-61-23
Status: in_force

In order to carry out the purpose of this chapter, the commission is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, and establish standards for the determination of the number of miles which a gallon of gasoline, diesel fuel, or kerosene would propel the different types and weights of vehicles. In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the commission is further authorized and empowered to determine and establish, from the best information obtainable, the average number of miles which each type or kind of fuel will propel each type or class of vehicle.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-15-151 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-151
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-15-151
Status: in_force

There is hereby imposed and levied and shall be collected annual privilege taxes, in addition to any and all other taxes imposed by law upon the persons, firms, co-partnerships, associations, or corporations, for the privilege of carrying on and continuing the businesses, activities, and exercising powers and rights under the laws of the State of Mississippi, which said tax shall be levied and collected as herein provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.333 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-56.333
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.333
Status: in_force

(1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be issued a distinctive license tag for any motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a supporter of Bogue Chitto High School. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Principal of Bogue Chitto High School, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2013, any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to Bogue Chitto High School.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-303 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 31 / Section 35-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-303
Status: in_force

(1) Each person, firm, company or corporation owning and/or operating a railroad, oil or gas pipeline company, electric company or any other company listed in Section 27-35-301 , owning property not situated wholly in one (1) county; and any telephone company owning property in more than six (6) counties shall, on or before the first day of April in each year, file with the Department of Revenue a complete schedule, under oath, on forms prescribed and furnished by the Department of Revenue, of all its property, real or personal, taxable and nontaxable, owned by it on the first day of the preceding January, setting forth therein the value of the whole, the total amount of capital stock, its par value and its actual value, and the value of its franchise, the gross amount of receipts in the year preceding; all real, personal or mixed property belonging to the company within the state, not enumerated, with its value; a list of all lands in this state owned, describing the same and giving the value thereof, the gross amount of receipts the year preceding earned within and from this state; and if any of said property is claimed to be exempt from taxation, it shall be separately stated and valued, and the law cited under which the claim is made. It shall not be necessary that a rendition on any motor vehicles be made as defined by the “Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958.” In addition to these required schedules, the Department of Revenue may require each person, firm, company or corporation to file with the Department of Revenue a copy of any annual report or form required to be filed by him with any federal regulatory agency. The Department of Revenue may grant an extension of up to twenty (20) days for the filing of the schedules required by this section.

(2) The Department of Revenue shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations as necessary to implement tax duties assigned to it in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-61-7 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 61-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-61-7
Status: in_force

The liability for the tax levied and imposed by this chapter shall arise and accrue at the time and place where any motor vehicle owned or operated by any carrier specified in this chapter shall go or enter upon any highway of this state. The amount of tax for which any owner or operator is liable shall be paid and the tax liability of such owner or operator shall be discharged by one (1) of the following methods:

(a) By the purchase of a sufficient amount or quantity of fuel from a wholesale or retail dealer or distributor to operate such motor vehicle in this state; provided, however, that at the time of the purchase of such fuel, the owner or operator of such motor vehicle shall obtain, from the dealer or distributor from whom purchased, an invoice or sales ticket on forms approved by the commission, which shall contain such information as the commission shall deem reasonably necessary for the administration of this chapter. Said invoices shall remain in the motor vehicle for the remainder of the trip over the highways of this state, and thereafter shall be preserved and retained by the owner or operator for a period of not less than three (3) years, and shall be produced for the inspection and examination of the commission at any reasonable time and place, either within or without this state, upon proper demand therefor.

(b) By having a valid credential issued by any member jurisdiction of the International Fuel Tax Agreement and by complying fully with the International Fuel Tax Agreement.

For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this section, the quantity of fuel needed to operate a motor vehicle in this state shall be determined by dividing the average miles per gallon allowed for each type of classification of motor vehicle into the number of miles such vehicle is deemed to have traveled in the state.

There shall be no credit allowed or adjustment made for any fuel consumed in auxiliary equipment when the fuel consumed by such equipment is supplied by the same fuel tank or tanks that supply fuel for the operation of the motor vehicle. Provided further that no credit shall be allowed or adjustments made for fuel used in power-take-off operations, loading or offloading or for idle time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-349 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 51 / Section 105-349
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-349
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is authorized and empowered to allow county depositories of county funds or county district funds of every kind and character to withdraw any bonds pledged or filed or deposited as security for those deposits:

(a) When in the opinion of the State Treasurer the deposits become reduced to such an extent as to justify the withdrawal;

(b) Or to withdraw any such bonds or corporate surety bonds, and substitute in lieu thereof other bonds or corporate surety bonds, as the case may be.

All such bonds shall be such as are authorized by law to be pledged or filed as security for those deposits, or if a corporate surety bond, it must be made by a surety company authorized to do business in this state; and in addition, all such deposits shall be fully secured and covered as required by Section 27-105-5 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-551 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 55-551
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-551
Status: in_force

The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to institute legal proceedings for any and all violations of this article, to recover taxes, damages or penalties due under this article. All taxes and damages recovered in any proceedings by the commission shall be paid over and disposed of as any and all other special fuel taxes are required to be. Any chancellor or judge authorized to grant remedial writs shall grant writs of sequestration for the impounding of special fuel on which the excise tax or penalty is owed. Before any writ of sequestration shall be issued under this section, the complainant shall make an affidavit showing that it had good cause to believe, and does believe, that there is an excise tax or penalty owed the State of Mississippi on the special fuel sought to be sequestered and that unless said special fuel is sequestered and impounded, said special fuel will be removed, concealed, or disposed of. Upon such affidavit being presented to any chancellor or judge authorized to grant remedial writs, said chancellor or judge shall order said writ to be issued upon the filing of a bill of complaint for the collection of the excise tax on said special fuel. The writ of sequestration shall then be issued and the property dealt with in the manner now provided by law for other writs of sequestration. Where the State of Mississippi is the complainant, no bond shall be required of said state for the issuance of said writ of sequestration.

The State of Mississippi shall have a lien upon all of the property of every distributor or person acting as a distributor of special fuel without a permit, used in the operation of his business as such distributor, for the excise taxes levied by this article and due or to become due the State of Mississippi. Such liens or encumbrances of whatever character shall be paramount to private liens and to the rights of any holder of the legal title in or to any pumps, tanks, inventories of special fuel and other petroleum products, motor vehicles, or other personal property used in the operation of said business.

The commission shall have the right, when taxes due the State of Mississippi are delinquent under this article, or where any person acting as a distributor of special fuel without a permit receives special fuel in this state without paying the tax thereon, to cause a writ of summons and seizure to issue, returnable to the court having jurisdiction thereof, in like manner as such writs are authorized to be issued by Chapter 7 of Title 85, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Such writ shall be directed to the proper officer or to the commission commanding the officer or the commission, as the case may be, to seize the property upon which a lien exists as hereinabove provided. After the issuance of such writ, such actions and proceedings shall be had on such writ as presently provided for the enforcement of purchase money security interests by the statutes of this state. The commission shall have the right to stop and hold any moving or movable equipment subject to seizure pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph pending the issuance of process.

It is expressly provided that the remedies set out in the foregoing paragraph shall be cumulative and that no action taken by the commission shall be construed to be an election on the part of this state or any of its officers to pursue any remedy hereunder to the exclusion of any other remedy for which provision is made in this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-127 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Section 103-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-127
Status: in_force

To the end that the overall budget shall present in comparable terms a complete summary of all financial operations of all state agencies, Part 2 of the overall budget shall include therein the requested budget and the recommended budget for each special fund agency. The overall budget shall show for each special fund agency, in addition to such other information as may be prescribed by the Legislative Budget Office, the following:

(a) The amount by source of all special fund receipts collected or otherwise available in the current fiscal year, and an estimate by source of all special funds which will be collected or become available by the end of the then current fiscal year;

(b) The estimated amount of all expenditures to be made or obligations to be incurred payable from such special funds during the then current fiscal year;

(c) The estimated aggregate amount of special funds which will be needed by the agency for the succeeding fiscal year; beginning with the 1995 fiscal year and in the event that any services proposed to be provided by the agency in the succeeding fiscal year are Medicaid reimbursable, any state general matching funds necessary for such reimbursement shall be included in the agency's proposed budget, and the appropriation to the Division of Medicaid in the 1995 fiscal year shall be adjusted accordingly;

(d) The estimated amount by source of special funds which will be available under existing laws during the succeeding fiscal year, including any balances which will be on hand at the close of the then current fiscal year;

(e) The estimated amount which will be needed and which will require change in existing law or laws;

(f) If any new item of expense is included in the proposed budget of any special fund agency, the reason therefor shall be given; and in any case where the Legislative Budget Office shall eliminate or reduce any item or items in the proposed budget of any special fund agency, it shall note briefly the reasons therefor, together with the reasons advanced by the agency in support of the item or items eliminated or reduced;

(g) The proposed budget of each special fund agency shall show the amounts required for operating expenses separately from the amounts required for permanent improvements.

Proposed expenditures for any agency in Part 2 of the overall budget shall not exceed the amount of estimated revenues which will be available to it. Provided, that the Legislative Budget Office may recommend changes in existing law so as to decrease or increase the revenues available to any agency if in its judgment such changes are necessary or desirable.

Provided further, that expenditures approved or authorized by the Legislature for any special fund agency or special funds approved for general fund agency shall constitute a maximum to be expended or encumbered by such agency, and shall not constitute authority to expend or encumber more than the amount of revenue actually collected or otherwise received.

No special fund agency or general fund agency shall make expenditures from special funds available to such agency unless such expenditures are set forth in a budget approved by the Legislature. Such legislative approval shall be set forth in an appropriation act. Provided, however, that special funds derived from the collection of taxes for any political subdivision of the state shall be excepted from the foregoing provisions. The executive head of the state agency shall be liable on his official bond for expenditures or encumbrances which exceed the total amount of the budget or the amount received if receipts are less than the approved budget.

Provided, however, that each university and college shall submit through the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning an annual budget to the Legislative Budget Office prior to the beginning of each fiscal year with such information and in such form, and in such detail, as may be required by the Legislative Budget Office. If the Legislative Budget Office determines that sufficient funds will be available during the fiscal year to fund the proposed budget as submitted, then and in that event the proposed budget shall be approved. However, if the Legislative Budget Office determines that, in its judgment, sufficient funds will not be available to fund the proposed budget, the affected institution or institutions and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall be promptly notified and given an opportunity to either justify the proposed budget or proposed amendments which can be mutually agreed upon. The Legislative Budget Office shall then approve the proposed budget or budgets of the several universities and colleges. The total amount approved for each institution shall constitute the maximum funds which may be expended during the fiscal year.

The municipal, county or combined municipal and county port and harbor commissions, authorities or other port or harbor agencies not owned or operated by the state, shall submit annual or amended budgets of their estimated receipts and expenditures to the governing bodies of such municipality, county or municipality and county, for their approval, and a copy of such budget as approved by such governing body or bodies shall be filed with the Legislative Budget Office. Such budget shall itemize all estimated receipts and expenditures, and the Legislative Budget Office may require particularization, explanation or audit thereof, and shall report such information to the Legislature.

To the end that the overall budget shall present in comparable terms a complete summary of all financial operations of all state agencies, Part 3 of such overall budget shall consist of an estimated preliminary annual budget of the Department of Transportation and the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Department of Transportation and such information for the current fiscal year as is necessary to make presentation comparable to that specified for Part 2 special fund agencies.

The annual budget request of the Department of Transportation shall be divided into the following program budgets: (a) administration and other expenses, (b) construction, (c) maintenance, (d) debt service, and (e) aeronautics, rails and other. In making its annual appropriation to the Department of Transportation from the State Highway Fund, the Legislature shall separate the appropriation bill into the five (5) program budget areas herein specified. For the purposes of this paragraph, “ administration and other expenses ” shall be construed to mean those expenses incurred due to departmental support activities which cannot be assigned to a specific construction or maintenance activity, and may be construed to include expenses incurred for office machines, furniture, fixtures, automobiles, electric vehicles, truck and other vehicles, road machinery, farm equipment and other working equipment, data processing and computer equipment, all other equipment, and replacements for equipment. “ Construction ” shall be construed to mean those expenses associated with the creation and development of the state highway system and its related facilities; “ maintenance ” shall be construed to mean those expenses incurred due to activities associated with preservation of safe and aesthetically acceptable highways in an attempt to maintain them in as close to the original condition as possible; and “ debt service ” shall be construed to mean amounts needed to pay bonds and interest coming due, bank service charges, and bond debt service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-75 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 35 / Section 35-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-35-75
Status: in_force

Whenever any road district or other taxing district or municipality is created, or when its metes and bounds are changed, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall deliver, within ten (10) days after such creation or alteration has been made final, to the tax assessor of the county and to the state tax commission a certified copy of the metes and bounds of the district or municipality, and, in addition to these copies, such official shall also furnish the tax commission with as many additional certified copies of such order as there are public service corporations operating in or through the district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-23 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-23
Status: in_force

(1) For the purposes of this section, the term “ hybrid vehicle ” means a vehicle that utilizes more than one (1) form of onboard energy to achieve propulsion, is manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads and highways, and is required to have a license tag under Section 27-19-1 et seq. , for operation on public streets, roads and highways.

(2)(a) Subject to the provisions of this section, there is imposed an annual tax on each hybrid vehicle, which shall be in addition to any other taxes for which the vehicle is liable. The tax shall be paid to the county tax collector at the same time and in the same manner as the annual highway privilege tax is paid. The amount of the tax shall be Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00). The tax shall not be imposed on a hybrid vehicle that is exempt from ad valorem taxation under Sections 27-19-53 and 27-51-41(2)(j) .

(b) Beginning July 1, 2021, and each succeeding July 1 thereafter, the rate of the tax imposed under this section and in effect at the end of the preceding state fiscal year shall be adjusted by increasing the tax by a percentage amount equal to the United States inflation rate for the previous calendar year ending on December 31 as certified by the Department of Finance and Administration. The United States inflation rate for a calendar year shall be the Consumer Price Index for the calendar year for urban consumers as calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. In adjusting the amount of the tax, amounts equal to or greater than Fifty Cents (50¢) shall be rounded to the next highest whole dollar.

(3) The tax collector shall have a special designation for hybrid vehicles in the vehicle records of the tax collector's office so that the owners of hybrid vehicles will be provided with the proper forms for paying the tax imposed by this section.

(4) The tax collector shall remit the proceeds of the tax collected under this section to the Department of Revenue, and the department shall apportion the proceeds of the tax among the various purposes specified in Section 27-5-101 for gasoline and diesel fuel taxes in the same proportion that those taxes were apportioned for those purposes during the previous state fiscal year and such funds shall be used solely for the repair and maintenance of roads, streets and bridges.

(5) The Department of Revenue shall have all of the power and authority that it has for enforcement of the motor vehicle privilege tax laws ( Section 27-19-1 et seq. ) to enforce the provisions of this section. The Commissioner of Revenue may adopt any rules or regulations that he deems necessary for the proper administration of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-17 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 49 / Section 105-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-17
Status: in_force

The commission hereby created shall have authority to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be reasonable and proper to properly and effectively carry out the purpose of this article. The commission shall elect a secretary from its membership, or otherwise, who shall also be bookkeeper for the commission, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to keep the minutes of said commission, and to keep such books, accounts and records with the various depositories as the commission may direct. The secretary shall also, from time to time, as may be ordered by the commission, make report showing the true and complete condition of all depository accounts, and he shall also report to the commission, at any time, any and all important matters which, in his judgment, should receive special action. The secretary shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum for this service, in addition to any other compensation he may be entitled to.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-515 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 53 / Section 55-515
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-515
Status: in_force

Before any person shall purchase and store diesel fuel or kerosene in marine storage, dockside storage or in barges for sale or delivery to boats, such person shall make application to the commission for a marine diesel fuel or kerosene permit. If the commission approves the application, it shall issue a permit authorizing the applicant to engage in business as a marine diesel fuel or kerosene dealer, and said permit shall not be assignable or otherwise transferable.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-39-329 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 39-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-39-329
Status: in_force

(1) Each county shall, in addition to all other taxes authorized by any statute and notwithstanding any limitation provided in this article, levy ad valorem taxes pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(2)(a) Any county which has, prior to October 1, 1982, under the provisions of Section 27-39-3 , or any other statute authorizing the retention of any state millage or the levying of any county millage, retained a net amount of revenue produced by the state ad valorem tax collected in such county or levied any tax, the proceeds of which have been committed for any purpose authorized by Section 27-39-7 or any other statute authorizing the retention of any state millage or the levying of any county millage, or for the support of a water management district, development district or other district or authority created by law for the improvement and development or operation of a port or harbor or for the payment of any bonds, notes or other indebtedness, or for any other purpose authorized by any statute authorizing the retention of any state millage or the levying of any county millage, shall, for the Fiscal Year 1983 and annually thereafter, levy a tax sufficient to produce the amount of revenue necessary to fulfill such commitment or pay all such bonds, notes or other indebtedness together with the interest thereon as the same shall become due and payable, to continue at the same level the support and operation of such authority or district created by law, as long as the county remains a member, and to fulfill any other purpose authorized by any statute authorizing the retention of any state millage or the levying of any county millage. Any county which has, pursuant to a contract between the Mississippi Board of Economic Development or its predecessor and a city located therein, retained a net amount of revenue, produced by two (2) mills of the state ad valorem tax collected in such county, the proceeds of which have been committed for the improvement, development, operation and expansion of a state port or for the payment of any indebtedness incurred for such purposes, shall, for the Fiscal Year 1983 and annually thereafter until the completion of property reappraisal as certified by the State Tax Commission, levy a tax of two (2) mills to fulfill such commitment consistent with the terms of said contract; however, for the fiscal year after property reappraisal as certified by the State Tax Commission and annually thereafter, such county shall levy an ad valorem tax sufficient to generate revenue equal to the avails of the two-mill levy imposed for the fiscal year next preceding the initial use of such reappraised property values, to fulfill such commitment consistent with the terms of said contract.

Any county which is a member of the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District may at such time as the district, by determination of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has completely fulfilled all its obligations as local sponsor for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project pursuant to P.L. 79-525, 60 Stat. 634 (1946) , and has completely fulfilled its obligations for any other lawful project where the district serves as local sponsor, elect to withdraw from or terminate its membership in said district. Upon completion as determined by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, and in order to withdraw from or terminate its membership in the district, the board of supervisors of any county so desiring shall declare its intention by adopting a resolution so stipulating and spreading such executed resolution upon its minutes and publish such resolution once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county or in a newspaper having a general circulation therein. If, within the time of giving notice, twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1500), whichever is less, of the qualified electors of the county shall protest or file a petition against the county's withdrawal from or termination of its membership in the district, then such withdrawal or termination of membership shall not occur unless authorized by a majority of the qualified electors of such county voting at an election to be called and held for that purpose. If the county's withdrawal from or termination of its membership in the district is authorized in the manner set forth herein, the board of supervisors shall mail by regular U.S. Mail a certified copy of its executed resolution to the general office of the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District. Upon full compliance as heretofore and hereafter directed, the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District shall enter its order on its minutes terminating or withdrawing the membership of the county as of September 30 following, thereby approving the termination or withdrawal of the county and suspending the levy or levies of ad valorem taxes used to support the district. Provided, however, that the board of supervisors shall not suspend the levy or levies of any millage pledged to support the issuance of any bonds or notes in the name of the district during the period of time that such county was a member of the district and which levies were outstanding at the time of the withdrawal and/or termination; and it is further provided, said county shall be liable and responsible for its pro rata share of any present and/or subsequent judgments or liens filed against the district until the statute of limitations shall have run against the district. “Pro rata share” shall be determined by dividing the total ad valorem tax contribution of such withdrawing county by the total of all ad valorem tax contributions of all member counties in the district multiplied by the total of the outstanding bonded indebtedness and other indebtedness funded by such ad valorem levy or levies, as of the date such indebtedness was incurred.

After the commitment has been fulfilled and is certified by the State Tax Commission as having been fulfilled, the board of supervisors may continue to levy a millage for each fiscal year necessary to produce that same dollar amount as the previous fiscal year for the same purpose or for any other purpose for which any portion of the former state ad valorem tax levy could heretofore have been retained, or for general county purposes. After such commitment has been fulfilled, any county which chooses to continue a levy for the same purpose for which such levy was being made may do so in its discretion. Any county which wishes to continue a levy for any other purpose for which the state ad valorem tax could have been retained or for general county purposes may do so only after an election has been held as follows: such tax shall not be levied until the board shall have published notice of its intention to levy same; said notice to be published once each week for three (3) weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county, but not less than twenty-one (21) days, nor more than sixty (60) days, intervening between the time of the first notice and the meeting at which said board proposes to levy such tax. If, within the time of giving notice, twenty percent (20%) or three thousand (3,000) of the qualified electors of the county, whichever is less, shall protest or file a petition against the levy of such tax, then such tax shall not be levied unless authorized by a three-fifths ( 3 / 5 ) majority of the qualified electors of such county, voting at an election to be called and held for that purpose.

In all cases where a county which is a member of the Pat Harrison Waterway District levied an ad valorem tax for the 1996 calendar year for any purpose authorized in this paragraph (a), such levy is hereby ratified, confirmed and validated.

(b) Beginning with taxes levied for the Fiscal Year 1983, each county shall levy each year an ad valorem tax of one (1) mill upon all taxable property of the county which may be used for any purpose for which counties are authorized by law to levy an ad valorem tax, but the avails of such tax levy shall not be expended unless and until the State Tax Commission has certified that the county has a method of maintaining assessment records in accordance with commission rules and regulations, has an ownership mapping system as provided in Section 27-35-53 in conformity with commission specifications, maintains certified appraisers as provided in Section 27-3-52 , and complies with requests by the commission for sales data under Section 27-3-51 .

In the event the commission enters its order directing that the avails of this levy be paid to the commission pursuant to Section 27-35-113 , then the county shall comply with the commission's directions and the monies paid shall remain in escrow until the county is in compliance with acceptable performance standards for the appraisal of property in accordance with Section 27-35-113 .

The commission, prior to October 1 of each year, shall notify each county whether or not it is certified as being in compliance with the requirements of subsection (2)(b). A copy of the notice shall be forwarded to the State Auditor. Any county not certified as being in compliance with any requirements of this subsection (2)(b), except where the commission has entered its order requiring the escrowing of these funds pursuant to Section 27-35-113 , shall deposit the avails of the levy described herein in an interest-bearing special account and such avails, including interest earned thereon, shall not be expended until such county has been certified by the commission, for each fiscal year, to be in compliance with this subsection (2)(b).

(c) The tax levies required in this section shall not be exempt under the provisions of Section 27-31-101 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-39-321 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 21 / Section 39-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-39-321
Status: in_force

(1) With respect to ad valorem taxes levied for each fiscal year, no political subdivision may levy ad valorem taxes in any fiscal year which would render in total receipts from all levies an amount more than the receipts from that source during any one (1) of the immediately preceding three (3) fiscal years, as determined by the levying governing authority, plus, at the option of the taxing authority, an increase not to exceed ten percent (10%) of such receipts. The additional revenue from the ad valorem tax on any newly constructed properties or any existing properties added to the tax rolls or any properties previously exempt, which were not assessed in the next preceding year and cost incurred and paid in the next preceding year in connection with reappraisal may be excluded from the ten percent (10%) increase limitation set forth herein. Taxes levied for school district purposes under any statute and taxes levied for the maintenance and/or construction of roads and bridges under Section 27-39-305 shall be excluded from the ten percent (10%) increase limitation set forth herein. Taxes levied for payment of principal of and interest on general obligation bonds issued heretofore or hereafter shall be excluded from the ten percent (10%) increase limitation set forth herein. Any additional millage levied to fund any new program mandated by the Legislature shall be excluded from the limitation for the first year of the levy and included within such limitation in any year thereafter. The limitation imposed under this paragraph shall not apply to those mandatory levies enumerated in Sections 27-39-320 and 27-39-329 .

(2) The limitation of this section may be increased only as provided in subsection (3) or (4) of this section or when the governing body of a political subdivision has determined the need for additional revenues, adopts a resolution declaring its intention so to do and has held an election on the question of raising the limitation prescribed in this section. The notice calling for an election shall state the purposes for which the additional revenues shall be used, the amount of the tax levy to be imposed for such purposes and period of time for which such tax levy shall be made; however, such tax levy shall not be made for more than five (5) successive years. The limitation may be increased under this subsection only if the proposed increase is approved by a majority of those voting. Subject to specific provisions of this paragraph to the contrary, the publication of notice and manner of holding the election shall be as prescribed by law for the holding of elections for the issuance of bonds by the political subdivision. Revenues derived from any taxes levied pursuant to such election shall be excluded from the tax base for the purpose of determining aggregate receipts for which the ten percent (10%) increase limitation applies.

(3) As an alternative to the procedure provided in subsection (2) of this section, the ten percent (10%) increase limitation prescribed in this section may be increased by an additional amount by the board of supervisors of any county without an election thereon if the aggregate receipts from all county levies to which this section and Sections 27-39-305 and 27-39-320 apply do not exceed one hundred ten percent (110%) of the aggregate receipts from all such levies during any one (1) of the immediately preceding three (3) fiscal years, as determined by the board of supervisors.

(4) As an alternative to the procedure provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the board of supervisors of any county or the governing authorities of any municipality may, without an election thereon, increase the ad valorem tax levy to which this section applies by the greater of:

(a) An ad valorem tax levy that does not result in an aggregate levy to which this section applies in excess of twenty (20) mills; or

(b) An ad valorem tax levy that is not in excess of any aggregate levy to which this section applies in any one (1) of the immediately preceding ten (10) fiscal years.

(5) In any county where there is located a nuclear generating power plant on which a tax is assessed under Section 27-35-309(3) , the term “total receipts” as used in this section shall be the portion of the “base revenue” as defined in Section 27-39-320 which is used for General Fund purposes.

(6) If a shortfall occurs in revenues from sources other than ad valorem taxes and oil and gas severance taxes budgeted for the county or municipal general fund during the 1987 fiscal year, then the county or municipality, as the case may be, may levy a special ad valorem tax for the 1988 fiscal year in an amount the avails of which shall not exceed such shortfall; provided, however, that the aggregate receipts from all ad valorem levies for the county or municipal general fund for the 1988 fiscal year shall not exceed the aggregate receipts from this source for the immediately preceding fiscal year plus an increase not to exceed twenty percent (20%).

(7) If a shortfall occurs in revenues from oil and gas severance taxes budgeted for the county or municipal general fund during the 1987 fiscal year, then the county or municipality, as the case may be, may levy a special ad valorem tax for the 1988 fiscal year in an amount the avails of which shall not exceed such shortfall. The avails of such special ad valorem tax shall not be included within the ten percent (10%) increase limitation. The ad valorem taxes levied to offset the shortfall shall be deemed to be ad valorem tax receipts produced in the 1988 fiscal year for the purposes of determining the limitation on receipts for the succeeding fiscal years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-13-5 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-13-5
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Franchise tax levy. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (3), (4), (5) and (7) of this section, there is hereby imposed, to be paid and collected as hereinafter provided, a franchise or excise tax upon every corporation, association or joint-stock company or partnership treated as a corporation under the income tax laws or regulations, organized or created for pecuniary gain, having privileges not possessed by individuals, and having authorized capital stock now existing in this state, or hereafter organized, created or established, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Mississippi, equal to:

(i) For tax years beginning before January 1, 2018, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(ii) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2019, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(iii) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, 2020, Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents ($2.25) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(iv) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2021, Two Dollars ($2.00) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(v) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, but before January 1, 2022, One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents ($1.75) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(vi) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2023, One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(vii) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2024, One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents ($1.25) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(viii) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2025, One Dollar ($1.00) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(ix) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2026, Seventy-five Cents (75¢) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(x) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2027, Fifty Cents (50¢) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(xi) For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2028, Twenty-five Cents (25¢) for each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), of the value of the capital used, invested or employed in the exercise of any power, privilege or right enjoyed by such organization within this state, except as hereinafter provided.

(b) In no case shall the franchise tax due for the accounting period be less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).

(c) It is the purpose of this section to require the payment to the State of Mississippi of this tax for the right granted by the laws of this state to exist as such organization, and to enjoy, under the protection of the laws of this state, the powers, rights, privileges and immunities derived from the state by the form of such existence.

(2) Annual report of domestic corporations. Each domestic corporation shall file an annual report as required by the provisions of Section 79-4-16.22 .

(3)(a) A corporation that has negotiated a fee-in-lieu as defined in Section 57-75-5 shall not be subject to the tax levied by this section on such project; however, the fee-in-lieu payment shall be otherwise treated in the same manner as the payment of franchise taxes.

(b)(i) As used in this paragraph:

1. “ Authority ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(b) ;

2. “ Project ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(f)(xxix) ; and

3. “ Enterprise ” shall mean the corporation authorized for the project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f)(xxix) .

(ii) The term of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement negotiated under this subsection and authorized by Section 57-75-5(j) , between the authority and the enterprise for the project shall not exceed twenty-five (25) years. The franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement shall apply only to new franchise tax liability attributable to the project, and shall not apply to any existing franchise tax liability of the enterprise in connection with any current operations in this state.

(iii) In the event that the annual number of full-time jobs maintained by the enterprise falls below the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise for two (2) consecutive years, the franchise tax fee-in-lieu for the project shall be suspended until the first tax year during which the annual number of full-time jobs maintained by the enterprise reaches the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise.

(iv) The enterprise shall be entitled to utilize a single sales apportionment factor in the calculation of its liability for franchise tax imposed by this chapter which is attributable to the project for any year for which it files a Mississippi franchise tax return. The enterprise shall be entitled to continue to utilize such single sales apportionment factor notwithstanding a suspension of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph.

(c) As used in this paragraph (c):

(i) “ Affiliated enterprise ” or an “ affiliate ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(k)(ii) ;

(ii) “ Authority ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(b) ;

(iii) “ Project ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxi) ; and

(iv) “ Enterprise ” shall mean the corporation authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxi) , or any corporation which becomes subject to the tax levied by this section because it is an affiliate of the corporation or other enterprise authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxi) .

(v) The term of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement negotiated under this subsection and authorized by Section 57-75-5(j) , between the authority and the enterprise shall expire in 2028 upon the repeal of the tax levied by this section. The franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement shall apply only to new franchise tax liability attributable to the project, and shall not apply to any existing franchise tax liability of the enterprise in connection with any current operations in this state.

(vi) In the event that the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or any affiliate thereof falls below the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise for one or more years, the franchise tax fee-in-lieu for the project may be reduced or suspended by the authority until the first tax year during which the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or its affiliates reaches the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise.

(vii) The enterprise shall be entitled to utilize a single sales apportionment factor in the calculation of its liability for franchise tax imposed by this chapter which is attributable to the project for any year for which it files a Mississippi franchise tax return. The enterprise shall be entitled to continue to utilize such single sales apportionment factor notwithstanding a suspension of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu pursuant to subparagraph (vi) of this paragraph. In no event shall an enterprise be entitled to utilize a single sales apportionment factor for purposes of calculating its liability for franchise tax imposed by this chapter attributable to any operations or activities thereof subject to tax liability imposed by this chapter prior to January 1, 2023, except to the extent that the enterprise is entitled to utilize a single sales apportionment factor in the calculation of its liability for franchise tax attributable to any operations or activities thereof subject to tax liability imposed by this chapter prior to January 1, 2023, pursuant to any other section of law or regulation duly adopted by the department.

(d) As used in this paragraph (d):

(i) “ Affiliated enterprise ” or an “ affiliate ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(k)(iii) ;

(ii) “ Authority ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(b) ;

(iii) “ Project ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxii) ; and

(iv) “ Enterprise ” shall mean a corporation authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxii) , or any corporation which becomes subject to the tax levied by this section because it is an affiliate of the corporation or other enterprise authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f)(xxxii) .

(v) The term of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement negotiated under this subsection and authorized by Section 57-75-5(j) , between the authority and the enterprise shall expire in 2028 upon the repeal of the tax levied by this section. The franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement shall apply only to new franchise tax liability attributable to the project, and shall not apply to any existing franchise tax liability of the enterprise in connection with any current operations in this state.

(vi) In the event that the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or any affiliate thereof falls below the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise for one or more years, the franchise tax fee-in-lieu for the project may be reduced or suspended by the authority until the first tax year during which the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or its affiliates reaches the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise.

(e) As used in this paragraph (e):

(i) “ Affiliated enterprise ” or an “ affiliate ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(k)(iv) .

(ii) “ Authority ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(b) .

(iii) “ Project ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 57-75-5(f) (xxxiii).

(iv) “ Enterprise ” shall mean a corporation authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f) (xxxiii), or any corporation which becomes subject to the tax levied by this section because it is an affiliate of the corporation or other enterprise authorized for a particular project pursuant to Section 57-75-5(f) (xxxiii).

(v) The term of the franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement negotiated under this subsection and authorized by Section 57-75-5(j) , between the authority and the enterprise shall expire in 2028 upon the repeal of the tax levied by this section. The franchise tax fee-in-lieu agreement shall apply only to new franchise tax liability attributable to the project, and shall not apply to any existing franchise tax liability of the enterprise in connection with any current operations in this state.

(vi) In the event that the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or any affiliate thereof falls below the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise for one or more years, the franchise tax fee-in-lieu for the project may be reduced or suspended by the authority until the first tax year during which the annual number of full-time jobs maintained or caused to be maintained by the enterprise and/or its affiliates reaches the minimum annual number of full-time jobs required by the authority pursuant to a written agreement between the authority and the enterprise.

(4) An approved business enterprise as defined in the Growth and Prosperity Act shall not be subject to the tax levied by this section on the value of capital used, invested or employed by the approved business enterprise in a growth and prosperity county or supervisors district as provided in the Growth and Prosperity Act.

(5) A business enterprise operating a project as defined in Section 57-64-33 , in a county that is a member of a regional economic development alliance created under the Regional Economic Development Act shall not be subject to the tax levied by this section on the value of capital used, invested or employed by the business enterprise in such a county as provided in Section 57-64-33 .

(6) The tax levied by this chapter and paid by a business enterprise located in a redevelopment project area under Sections 57-91-1 through 57-91-11 shall be deposited into the Redevelopment Project Incentive Fund created in Section 57-91-9 .

(7) A business enterprise as defined in Section 57-113-1 or 57-113-21 that is exempt from certain state taxes under Section 57-113-5 or 57-113-25 shall not be subject to the tax levied by this section on the value of capital used, invested or employed by the business enterprise.

(8) A taxpayer who is eligible to apply, as a credit against the tax levied by this chapter, a tax credit awarded by the Mississippi Development Authority in accordance with the Mississippi Flexible Tax Incentive Act may apply the tax credit in the amount available for such purpose, or such lesser amount determined by the taxpayer, pursuant to the Mississippi Flexible Tax Incentive Act. The credit applied for a tax-reporting period shall be reflected on the form of the return in the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-327 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 49 / Section 105-327
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-105-327
Status: in_force

The amount to be paid by any and all depositories for the privilege of keeping county funds on deposit, if required to be paid under the provisions of Section 27-105-303 , shall be computed on the average daily balance of the public money kept on deposit therewith and there be credited and paid to the county monthly. Each depository shall render, at the beginning of each and every month, to the chancery clerk a statement in duplicate, showing the daily balance of the county money held by it during the month next preceding, and all sums paid to the county for the privilege of keeping said county money shall be credited to the account of the several funds entitled thereto.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-531 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 43 / Section 55-531
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-55-531
Status: in_force

The commission, in its discretion, may promulgate rules setting forth requirements for marking or identifying diesel fuel or kerosene to be used for nonhighway purposes.

Storage facilities for nonhighway use diesel fuel or for nonhighway use kerosene shall be plainly marked “NONHIGHWAY DIESEL FUEL” or “NONHIGHWAY KEROSENE” in lettering of not less than four (4) inches in height on a contrasting background. Where such storage facilities are underground, then all pumps or dispensing equipment shall be plainly marked as required in this section. Where such diesel fuel or kerosene is delivered directly into the fuel tank or equipment for nonhighway use, either the fuel tank or some part of such equipment as near to the fuel tank as possible shall be plainly marked “NONHIGHWAY DIESEL FUEL” or “NONHIGHWAY KEROSENE” in lettering of not less than four (4) inches in height on a contrasting background. Separate storage facilities are required for highway use diesel fuel and kerosene and shall be marked “FOR HIGHWAY USE” in lettering of not less than four (4) inches in height on a contrasting background.

Any person who purchases, receives, acquires or uses any nonhighway diesel fuel or kerosene shall be liable for the tax levied by Sections 27-55-519 and 27-55-521 , if said diesel fuel or kerosene is used on the highways of this state or for any purpose taxable under such sections.

All sales of diesel fuel for nonhighway use shall be evidenced in writing and such invoice shall bear the name of the purchaser and seller, the date of delivery of such diesel fuel, the kind and quantity of the product delivered and the use for which such nonhighway diesel fuel was purchased. Such invoices shall be retained by the purchaser of nonhighway diesel fuel for a period of not less than three (3) years. Invoices made to cash shall not be considered as complying with the terms of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-113-3 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 37 / Section 113-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-113-3
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that:

(a) During times of storm, flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane or other disaster or emergency, many businesses bring in resources and personnel from other states throughout the United States on a temporary basis to expedite the often enormous and overwhelming task of cleaning up, restoring and repairing damaged buildings, equipment and property or even deploying or building new replacement facilities in the state.

(b) This may involve the need for out-of-state businesses, including out-of-state affiliates of businesses based in the state, to bring in resources, property and/or personnel that previously have had no connection to the state, to perform activity in the state, including, but not limited to, repairing, renovating, installing, building, rendering services or other business activities and for which personnel may be located in the state for extended periods of time to perform such activities.

(c) During such time of operating in the state on a temporary basis solely for purposes of helping the state recover from the disaster or emergency, these businesses and individual employees should not be burdened by any requirements for business and employee taxes as a result of such activities in the state for a temporary period.

(d) To ensure that businesses may focus on quick response to the needs of the state and its citizens during a declared state disaster or emergency, it is appropriate for the Legislature to deem that such activity for a reasonable period of time before, during, and after the disaster or emergency for repairing and restoration of the often devastating damage to critical property and infrastructure in the state as defined in this chapter shall not establish presence, residency, nor doing business in the state nor any other criteria for purposes of state and local taxes, licensing and regulatory requirements.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-101 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 51 / Section 103-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-101
Status: in_force

(1) There is created the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the Legislative Budget Office which shall be governed by such committee. The joint committee shall be composed of the following members: The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi State Senate, the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Mississippi, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and three (3) members of the Senate to be named by the Lieutenant Governor; the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and four (4) members of the House of Representatives to be named by the Speaker of the House. In the event any ex officio member of the joint committee holds two (2) positions entitling him to membership on the committee, the Lieutenant Governor or the Speaker of the House, as the case may be, shall appoint another member of the respective house to membership on the committee. The chairmanship shall alternate for twelve-month periods between the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Lieutenant Governor, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives serving as the first chairman. In the absence of the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senate Appropriations Committee, House Appropriations Committee and Ways and Means Committee, the vice chairman of any such committee shall be entitled to attend; if the vice chairman is unable to attend or if an appointed member is unable to attend, another legislator may be designated to attend by the Lieutenant Governor or the Speaker of the House, as the case may be. If the Lieutenant Governor or Speaker of the House is unable to attend a meeting, he may designate a legislator to substitute for him at that meeting. If the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate is unable to attend a meeting, the Lieutenant Governor shall designate a member of the Senate to substitute for him at that meeting. Any proxy shall have a vote at the meeting he was selected to attend and also shall, when attending, receive compensation and expenses in the same manner and amount as regular members of the joint committee.

There shall be no business transacted, including adoption of rules of procedure, without the presence of a quorum of the joint committee. A quorum shall be eight (8) members, to consist of four (4) members from the Senate and four (4) members from the House of Representatives. No action shall be valid unless approved by the majority of those members present and voting, entered upon the minutes of the joint committee and signed by the chairman and vice chairman. All actions of the joint committee shall be approved by at least four (4) Senate members and four (4) House members.

As used in Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 , the term “ committee ” shall mean the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

(2) The members of the committee shall receive, in addition to other compensation due them, per diem as is authorized by law for their services in carrying out the duties of the committee and, in addition thereto, shall receive a daily expense allowance equal to the maximum daily expense rate allowable to employees of the federal government for travel in the high rate geographical area of Jackson, Mississippi, as may be established by federal regulations, including mileage as authorized by Section 25-3-41 , the same to be paid from the operating budget of the Legislative Budget Office. However, in no case shall the members of the committee draw per diem while the Legislature is in regular or special session, except that members may receive the per diem and expenses authorized by this section when the Legislature is in session but in recess under the terms of a concurrent resolution, or in recess during a special session.

(3) The committee may meet at least once each month; and the chairman or director may call additional meetings at such times as they deem necessary or advisable.

(4) The Legislative Budget Office shall, upon the request of a member or member-elect of the Senate or House of Representatives, make available one (1) copy of data, reports, fiscal information or related information submitted to the budget office by any general or special fund agency, whether submitted in support of its budget request or pursuant to any requirement of law or rule of the budget committee or office.

(5) All expenses incurred by and on behalf of the committee shall be paid from funds appropriated therefor, or from a sum to be provided in equal portion from the contingency funds of the Senate and House of Representatives or from transfers of funds as provided in Section 7-13-7 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-69-75 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 33 / Section 69-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-69-75
Status: in_force

All taxes levied by this chapter shall be payable to the commissioner in cash, or by personal check, cashier's check, bank exchange, post-office money order or express money order, and shall be deposited by the commissioner in the State Treasury on the same day collected. No remittance other than cash shall be a final discharge of liability for the tax herein assessed and levied, unless and until it has been paid in cash to the commissioner.

All tobacco taxes collected, including tobacco license taxes, shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.

Wholesalers who are entitled to purchase stamps at a discount, as provided by Section 27-69-31 , may have consigned to them, without advance payment, such stamps, if and when such wholesaler shall give to the commissioner a good and sufficient bond executed by some surety company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned to secure the payment for the stamps so consigned. The commissioner shall require payment for such stamps not later than thirty (30) days from the date the stamps were consigned.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-27 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 25 / Section 57-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-57-27
Status: in_force

The commissioner and his agents and employees shall have full access, ingress, and egress at all reasonable hours to any place or building where lubricating oil may be received, stored, transported, sold, offered or exposed for sale, manufactured, refined, distilled, compounded, or blended. The commissioner and his agents and employees shall have the right to open and inspect any case, package, or other container, and any tank, pump, tank car or storage tank in which lubricating oil is kept and enter upon any barge, vessel, or other vehicle transporting lubricating oil and, with instruments conforming to the weights and measures adopted by the United States Bureau of Standards, check any measuring device or volume of weight of the contents of any such container.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.401 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-56.401
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-56.401
Status: in_force

(1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount provided in subsection (3) of this section, shall be issued a distinctive license tag for any motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a supporter of East Side High School Trojans in Cleveland, Mississippi. The distinctive license tags so issued shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of the Principal of East Side High School, may prescribe and shall consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.

(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (3) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) thereof to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(3) Beginning with any registration year commencing on or after July 1, 2015, any person applying for a distinctive license tag under this section shall pay an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for each distinctive license tag applied for under this section, which shall be in addition to all other taxes and fees. The additional fee paid shall be for a period of time to run concurrently with the vehicle's established license tag year. The additional fee is due and payable at the time the original application is made for a distinctive license tag under this section and thereafter annually at the time of renewal registration as long as the owner retains the distinctive license tag. If the owner does not wish to retain the distinctive license tag, he must surrender it to the local county tax collector.

(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify to the State Treasurer the total fees collected under this section from the issuance of the distinctive license tags issued under this section. The State Treasurer shall distribute such collections as follows:

(a) Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be distributed to East Side High School Booster Club.

(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70 .

(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.

(d) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund created in Section 27-19-44.2 .

(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the regular license tag.

(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37 . The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-17-475 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 8 / Section 17-475
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-17-475
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the county auditor or of the governing body of a municipality to prepare and have printed and distributed to the officer collecting the tax the proper privilege tax license blanks necessary to carry into effect any law relating to privilege taxes. There shall be printed on each license at the bottom thereof the words “this license shall not make lawful any act or thing declared to be unlawful by the State of Mississippi.” All such privilege license blanks shall be printed in the form prescribed by the county auditor or in the case of a municipality, by the governing body of a municipality. The privilege license blanks shall be imprinted with the fiscal year for which the blanks are to be issued and shall be numbered consecutively for each fiscal year. The privilege license blanks shall be made in duplicate, which duplicate may be in the form of a paper copy or electronic document. The original and paper or electronic duplicate, as the case may be, must bear the same serial number and be alike in all respects except that they must be marked “original” and “duplicate.” If a paper duplicate is used, the original and duplicate shall be of different colors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-9-21 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 4 / Section 9-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-9-21
Status: in_force

The executor of an estate of gross value exceeding the amount of the specific exemption provided in Section 27-9-11 shall, within sixty (60) days after the decedent's death or within a like period after qualifying as such, give written notice thereof to the commissioner. Such notice shall show the name of the decedent, the date of death, the name of the attorney and the probable value of the gross estate, also what transfers, if any, the decedent made within two (2) years before his death.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-18 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-18
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-18
Status: in_force

(1) Alimony payments. In the case of a person described in Section 27-7-15(2)(e) , there shall be allowed as a deduction from gross income amounts paid as periodic payments to the extent of such amounts as are includible in the gross income of the spouse as provided in Section 27-7-15(2)(e) , payment of which is made within the person's taxable year.

(2) Unreimbursed moving expenses incurred after December 31, 1994, are deductible as an adjustment to gross income in accordance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and rules, regulations and revenue procedures thereunder relating to moving expenses, not in direct conflict with the provisions of the Mississippi Income Tax Law.

(3) Amounts paid after December 31, 1998, by a self-employed individual for insurance which constitute medical care for the taxpayer, his spouse and dependents, are deductible as an adjustment to gross income in accordance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and rules, regulations and revenue procedures thereunder relating to such payments, not in direct conflict with the provisions of the Mississippi Income Tax Law.

(4) Contributions or payments to a Mississippi Affordable College Savings (MACS) Program account are deductible from gross income as provided in Section 37-155-113 . Payments made under a prepaid tuition contract entered into under the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program are deductible as provided in Section 37-155-17 .

(5)(a) Unreimbursed travel expenses, lodging expenses and lost wages an individual incurred as a result of, and related to, the donation, while living, of one or more of his or her organs for human organ transplantation, are deductible from gross income. The deduction from gross income authorized by this subsection may be claimed for only once and may not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).

(b) As used in this subsection, “ organ ” means all or part of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung or bone marrow.

(6) In the case of a self-employed individual, there shall be allowed as a deduction from gross income an amount equal to:

(a) Seventeen percent (17%) of the federal self-employment taxes imposed on such individual for taxable years ending in calendar year 2017;

(b) Thirty-four percent (34%) of the federal self-employment taxes imposed on such individual for taxable years ending in calendar year 2018; and

(c) Fifty percent (50%) of the federal self-employment taxes imposed on such individual for taxable years ending in calendar year 2019 and thereafter.

(7) Contributions or payments to a Mississippi Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program account are deductible from gross income as provided in Section 43-28-13 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-45 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-45
Status: in_force

(1) The tax levied by this article shall be paid when the return is due except as hereinafter provided.

(2)(a) If any officer or employee of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof, is in arrears in child support payments for thirty (30) days after such payments become due and payable, his wages, salary or other compensation shall be withheld and paid to the Department of Human Services in satisfaction of any child support arrearage until paid in full. This provision shall apply to any installments of child support due, after the first installment, to require payment of the entire balance of child support due, plus interest and penalty, if any, before an officer or employee of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof, is eligible to draw any salary or other emoluments of office. The Department of Human Services is required to furnish the officer's or the employee's employer, or other appropriate officer of the State of Mississippi or its political subdivision, as the case may be, with notice that child support payments have not been made. This notice shall serve as a lien or attachment upon any salary or compensation due any employee or officer, disregard of this notice creating personal liability against such officer for the full amount due, plus interest and penalty. Regardless of the amount designated in the Department of Human Service's notice for withholding and regardless of other fees imposed or amounts withheld pursuant to this section, the payor shall not deduct from the income of the officer or employee in excess of the amounts allowed under Section 303(b) of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, being 15 USCS 1673 , as amended.

(b) If any officer or employee of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof, does not pay his or her state income tax on or before August 15 after such income tax becomes due and payable, his or her wages, salary or other compensation shall be withheld and paid to the Department of Revenue in satisfaction of such income tax, interest and penalty, if any, until paid in full, unless the officer or employee elects under this paragraph (b) to have a lesser amount withheld. This provision shall apply to any installments of income tax after the first installment, to require payment of the entire balance of tax due, plus interest and penalty, if any. The Commissioner of Revenue is required to furnish the State Fiscal Officer, chancery clerk, city clerk or other appropriate fiscal officer of a political subdivision, as the case may be, with notice that income taxes have not been paid. This notice shall serve as a lien or attachment upon any salary or compensation due any employee or officer, disregard of this notice creating personal liability against such officer for the full amount of the income tax due, plus interest and penalty. Upon receipt of such notice from the Commissioner of Revenue, the State Fiscal Officer, chancery clerk, city clerk or other appropriate fiscal officer of a political subdivision, as the case may be, shall notify the officer or employee of such nonpayment of income taxes and allow the officer or employee to elect to have twenty-five percent (25%), instead of the full amount, of his or her wages withheld and paid to the Department of Revenue in satisfaction of such income tax, interest and penalty, if any, until paid in full. If the officer or employee does not make such an election, then his or her wages, salary or other compensation shall be withheld and paid to the Department of Revenue in satisfaction of such income tax, interest and penalty, if any, until paid in full. The Department of Revenue, in its discretion, may waive the provisions of this paragraph (b) on behalf of any public officer or employee in the event of an extended personal illness, an extended illness in his or her immediate family or other emergency.

(3) The tax or child support payment may be paid with uncertified check during such time and under such regulations as the commissioner or the Department of Human Services shall prescribe, but if the check so received is not paid by the bank on which it is drawn, the officer or employee for whom such check is tendered shall remain liable for the payment of the tax, child support payment and for all penalties, the same as if such check had not been tendered.

(4) If a corporation is subject to LIFO recapture pursuant to Section 1363(d) of the Code, then:

(a) Any increase in the tax imposed by Section 27-7-5 by reason of the inclusion of the LIFO recapture amount in its income shall be payable in four (4) equal installments;

(b) The first installment shall be paid on or before the due date (determined without regard to extensions) for filing the return for the first taxable year for which the corporation was subject to the LIFO recapture;

(c) The three (3) succeeding installments shall be paid on or before the due date (determined without regard to extensions) for filing the corporation's return for the three (3) succeeding taxable years; and

(d) For purposes of computing interest on underpayments, the last three (3) installments shall not be considered underpayments until after the payment due date specified above.

(5) For purposes of this section, a political subdivision includes, but is not limited to, a county or separate school district, institution of higher learning, state college or university, or state community college.

(6) The tax levied by this article and paid by a business enterprise located in a redevelopment project area under Sections 57-91-1 through 57-91-11 shall be deposited into the Redevelopment Project Incentive Fund created in Section 57-91-9 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-22-3-nr2 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-22-3-nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-7-22-3-nr2
Status: in_force

(1) For taxpayers who are required to pay a job assessment fee as provided in Section 57-10-413 , there shall be allowed as a credit against the taxes imposed by this chapter, an amount equal to the amount of the job assessment fee imposed upon such taxpayer pursuant to Section 57-10-413 . If the amount allowable as a credit exceeds the tax imposed by this article and Section 27-7-22.3 , the amount of such excess shall not be refundable or carried forward to any other taxable year.

(2) For any approved company as defined in Section 57-10-401 , there shall be allowed against the taxes imposed by this chapter on the income of the approved company generated by or arising out of the economic development project (as defined in Section 57-10-401 ), a credit in an amount not to exceed the total debt service paid under a financing agreement entered into under Section 57-10-409 . The tax credit allowed in this subsection shall not exceed the amount of taxes due the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-167 — MS Code / Title 27 / Chapter 41 / Section 107-167
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-107-167
Status: in_force

The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167 .