As another year’s tax day filing deadline came and went, several interesting, and potentially significant, tax-related developments surfaced that have a direct or indirect impact on us here in Mississippi. One development took place next door in Louisiana, another here, while the third emanates from Washington, D.C. First, in Baton Rouge in early April, Gov. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 25,2013
Tags: computer, ecommerce, Internet, online, sales, Sales Tax, shop, shopper, shopping, survey, tax, tax collection
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi lost at least $616.5 million in online sales tax collections during the five-year period from 2007 until 2012, a survey says. Mississippi and other states could soon have the option to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases if the U.S. Senate approves, as expected, the Marketplace Fairness Act, legislation that would [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 1,2013
Tags: apprpriation, budget, city, city government, economy, fund, funding, municipal, municipality, reserve, retail, sales, Sales Tax, shop, shopper, shopping, tax, tax collection
COLUMBUS — Sales tax collections continue to lag behind last year’s revenue, raising questions about whether the city will have to amend its budget or dip into reserves to make up the difference. The Commercial Dispatch reports January revenue was reported at about $626,000, a drop of more than $24,000 from the same period in [...] [...]
JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers have ignored, and killed, two bills that would have allowed cities to impose a local sales tax. Under the bills that died yesterday, cities could have held elections to see if citizens approved of an additional 1 percent tax for specific capital projects. If at least 60 percent of voters said [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 26,2013
Tags: bill, electricity, energy, farm, farmer, farming, fuel, gasoline, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislator, Legislature, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, ranch, rancher, Sales Tax, state government, tax, tax break, tax incentive, taxpayer, utility bill
JACKSON — Factory operators, farmers and fishermen could stop paying sales taxes on electricity and fuel, under a state House proposal. Representatives passed House Bill 844 by a 75-43 vote yesterday to exempt those groups from a 1.5 percent sales tax on fuel used in producing those industries’ products. It now goes to the Senate [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 6,2013
Tags: appropriation, bill, city governmkent, funding, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, local government, municipal, municipality, Sales Tax, state government, tax, taxpayer
JACKSON — A Mississippi House committee has given municipal officials what they’ve wanted for more than 20 years — a chance at passage of a local options sales tax. The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a bill for a 1 percent local sales tax as a way to build parks, improve water systems [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 31,2013
Tags: bill, city, community, legislation, legislator, Legislature, local government, municipal, municipality, Sales Tax, state government, tax, town
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Municipal officials are again proposing a 1 percent local sales tax as a way to build parks, improve water systems and get crumbling streets back into shape. They need a change in state law to move forward. Legislators have resisted local tax proposals for years, and it’s not clear whether 2013 will [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 15,2012
Tags: agency, facility, funding, infrastructure, loan, Sales Tax, sewage, sewer, state government, tax, tax collection, taxpayer, town, trewatment, wastewater
SUMMIT — The Summit Town Council has agreed to divert more than $7,000 in monthly sales tax revenues to pay off a $1.4-million debt to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, which is bankrolling the town’s new wastewater treatment facility. Town Clerk Pat Whittington tells the Enterprise-Journal DEQ officials stipulated in their loan agreement with [...] [...]
One of the study groups Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann assembles annually to kick around business law reform ideas recently got the ins and outs of sales tax simplification procedures, including the mechanisms behind collecting sales taxes charged by out-of-state retailers. Two bills are circulating through Congress that would give states the authority to collect [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 9,2012
Tags: appeal, civic center, county, county government, entertainment, facility, lien, Sales Tax, state agency, state government, tax, venue
GREENWOOD — The Mississippi Department of Revenue has put a $14,182 lien on a Leflore County Civic Center bank account based on allegations the center didn’t pay sales taxes. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the Leflore County Board of Supervisors, which owns the Civic Center, unanimously voted to appeal the lien. The Civic Center’s director says [...] [...]
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