Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 57 - PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (§§ 57-NEW-001 — 57-123-55) › Chapter 10 - SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE (§§ 57-10-1 — 57-10-731) › Article 11 - BONDS TO FINANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (§§ 57-10-401 — 57-10-449) › Section 57-10-413 - [Repealed Effective 10/1/2025] Job development assessment fee

[In cases involving an economic development project for which the Mississippi Business Finance Corporation has not issued bonds for the purpose of financing the approved costs of such project prior to July 1, 1994, but has issued bonds for such project prior to July 1, 1997, or in cases involving an economic development project which has been induced by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Business Finance Corporation that has been filed with the State Tax Commission prior to July 1, 1997, this section shall read as follows:]
(1)
Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (6) of this section, the approved company may require that each employee whose gross wages are equivalent to Five Dollars ($5.00) or more per hour, as a condition of employment, agrees to pay a job development assessment fee not to exceed a certain percentage of the gross wages of each such employee whose job was created as a result of the economic development project, for the purpose of retiring the bonds which fund the economic development project or other indebtedness. The job development assessment fee shall not exceed the following percentages of the gross wages of the employee:
(a)
Two percent (2%), if the gross wages of the employee are equivalent to Five Dollars ($5.00) or more per hour but less than Seven Dollars ($7.00) per hour;
(b)
Four percent (4%), if the gross wages of the employee are equivalent to Seven Dollars ($7.00) or more per hour but less than Nine Dollars ($9.00) per hour; and
(c)
Six percent (6%), if the gross wages of the employee are equivalent to Nine Dollars ($9.00) or more per hour.
(2)
Each employee so assessed shall be entitled to credits against Mississippi income taxes as provided in Section
27-7-22.3
.
(3)
If an approved company shall elect to impose the assessment as a condition of employment, it shall deduct the assessment from each paycheck of each employee.
(4)
Any approved company collecting an assessment as provided in subsection (1) of this section shall make its payroll books and records available to the corporation at such reasonable times as the corporation shall request and shall file with the corporation documentation respecting the assessment as the corporation may require.
(5)
Any assessment of the wages of employees of an approved company in connection with their employment at an economic development project under subsection (1) of this section shall lapse on the date the bonds are retired.
(6)
If an eligible company closes a facility in this state and becomes an approved company under the provisions of Sections
57-10-401
through
57-10-449
, only those jobs created in excess of those that existed at the closed facility at the time of the closure shall be eligible for the imposition of the job development assessment fee. The Mississippi Business Finance Corporation shall promulgate rules and regulations to govern the determination of the number of jobs upon which the job development assessment fee may be imposed.
Laws, 1993, ch. 565, § 7; Laws, 1994, ch. 525, § 4; Laws, 1997, ch. 576, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 2000, ch. 425, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 2001, ch. 337, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 2005, ch. 399, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 2007, ch. 389, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 2011, ch. 519, § 7, eff. 7/1/2011.
Reenacted without change by Laws, 2022, ch. 381, SB 2846,§ 7, eff. 7/1/2022.
Reenacted without change by Laws, 2017, ch. 325, SB 2474, 7, eff. 7/1/2017.
Reenacted without change by Laws, 2015, ch. 398, SB 2658, 7, eff. 7/1/2015.