Title 27, Taxation and Finance

(1) Every insurance company liable for the tax under the provisions hereof shall make and file with the Department of Revenue, estimated tax returns and payments for the insurance premium tax levied under Sections 27-15-103 and 27-15-109 for the first four (4) periods of each cal…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 83-61-11, there is hereby levied and imposed upon each domestic company doing business in this state an annual tax of three percent (3%) of the gross amount of premiums collected by such domestic company on insurance policies and contra…

Every person desiring to engage in any business, or exercise any privilege hereafter specified shall first, before commencing same, apply for, pay for, and procure from the state tax commissioner or commissioner of insurance, a privilege license authorizing him to engage in the b…

All taxes for which any company is liable under the provisions of this chapter or any other title or chapter which imposes a tax on insurance premiums shall be collected and recovered by the State Tax Commission in the same manner provided by law for the collection of sales taxes…

In addition to all other taxes authorized by law, insurance companies shall pay the license and privilege taxes imposed by Sections 27-15-81 and 27-15-83, the taxes imposed by Sections 27-15-103 through 27-15-117, ad valorem taxes on real estate and tangible personal property, st…

All of the provisions of Sections 27-15-103 through 27-15-117 shall be applicable to mutual and reciprocal insurance companies and associations.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the laws of this state, the rate of the annual license or privilege tax on the gross amount of premium receipts received from and on annuity policies and contracts written in or covering risks located in this state shall be one percent …

Sections 27-15-121 through 27-15-127 shall be known as the “Mississippi Insurance Premium Tax Retaliatory Law.”

When by or pursuant to the laws of any other state or foreign country any taxes, licenses and other fees, in the aggregate, and any fines, penalties, deposit requirements or other material obligations, prohibitions or restrictions are or would be imposed upon Mississippi insurers…

Sections 27-15-121 through 27-15-127 shall not apply as to personal income taxes, nor as to ad valorem taxes on real or personal property nor as to special purpose obligations or assessments imposed by another state in connection with particular kinds of insurance, other than pro…

(a) For the purposes of Sections 27-15-121 through 27-15-127 the domicile of a foreign insurer other than insurers formed under the laws of Canada, shall be that state designated by the insurer in writing filed with the commissioner at time of admission to this state or within si…

(1) The amount of premium tax payable pursuant to Sections 27-15-103, 27-15-109, 27-15-119 and 83-31-45, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be reduced from the amount otherwise fixed in such sections if the payer files a sworn statement with the required annual report showing as of …

In the event a company has overpaid taxes levied pursuant to Section 27-15-103, 27-15-109, 27-15-119 or 83-31-45, the commissioner may give credit for such overpayment and allow the company to take credit on subsequent returns or, if necessary, in the discretion of the commission…

There shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed under Sections 27-15-103 through 27-15-129, in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross premium receipts on new policies written for essential property insurance (as defined in Section 83-34-1) within the coast a…

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, activit…

Upon each person engaged or continuing in this state in the business of operating a telephone company, there is hereby levied a tax of Four Cents (4¢) on each telephone in service at the end of the last calendar year, or Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), whichever is greater.

Upon each person engaging or continuing in this state in the business of operating an electric light or electric power plant, or maintaining a line or lines for the transmission of electricity, or electric current for electric lights or electric power, for each mile of pole line,…

(1) Upon each person engaging or continuing in the business of operating a railroad, tax is assessed as follows:For each railroad whose average earnings per mile are greater than Thirty-six Thousand Dollars ($36,000.00), the tax shall be Ninety Dollars ($90.00) per mile.For each …

Upon each person operating a pipeline in or through this state or engaged in transporting in or through this state crude oil, liquid petroleum products, and natural or artificial gas through pipes or conduits, for the privilege of exercising or enjoying such right and power in th…

Each person required by Sections 27-15-151 through 27-15-165 to pay a privilege tax for doing business in this state, shall annually, on or before the first day of December each year, make and file with the State Tax Commission an application for a privilege license, and shall pa…

If at any time any person liable for a tax under Sections 27-15-151 through 27-15-165 increases his classifications so as to require the payment of an additional tax, or shall begin business or construct or operate additional taxable units, application shall be made to the Tax Co…

The taxpayer shall complete the application and shall pay the tax imposed by Sections 27-15-151 through 27-15-165 on or before the first day of December in each year (except as provided in the next preceding section), but failure to receive an application for a license does not e…

All licenses required by this chapter shall be obtained from the tax commissioner or the commissioner of insurance, except in cases where the law provides that some other officer shall issue the license.

Every person required to obtain a license for the privilege of engaging in any business for which a privilege tax is required shall make application therefor in writing to the officer who is required to collect the tax. The application for license shall be filed on blanks to be f…

Upon the receipt of the application herein required, and payment of the amount shown thereby to be due for the privilege to be exercised, the officer to whom the application is made shall determine if the application is in proper form, and if the correct amount be tendered, and m…

Any person pursuing or engaging in more than one (1) of the businesses for which a privilege tax is imposed, shall pay separately the privilege tax imposed upon each separate business so conducted, engaged in, or pursued except as otherwise specifically provided by this chapter, …

In all cases where a privilege tax is required for carrying on any business in this state, and a privilege license has been obtained for the same, and afterwards during the period covered by said license, the licensee shall desire to increase his business to a classification for …

In the event a person engaged in business is liable for two (2) or more annual privilege taxes, or has two (2) or more annual privilege licenses, which licenses expire in different months desires to have all his privilege tax licenses expire on a common date, he may apply to the …

On or before the first day of each month, the collector shall mail to each privilege taxpayer holding an annual license, and whose license will expire during the following month, as shown by his record, a notice, that the license will expire, and that a new privilege license must…

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…

Each privilege license issued shall be kept posted in a conspicuous part of the place of business of the person to whom such license has been issued where the business carried on has a permanent location, and if the business is such that the license cannot be so posted, then the …

The privilege license herein provided shall be and constitute a personal privilege to the person named therein to conduct the business specified in the license, and shall not be transferable to any other person, and shall be construed to limit to the county and location specified…

The issuance of a privilege license, or the payment of a tax required therefor, shall not make lawful any business, employment transaction, article or device, or the operation thereof, contrary to any statute of this state, or any ordinance of any municipality thereof.

It shall be the duty of the officer collecting the taxes to prepare and have printed the proper privilege tax license blanks necessary to carry into effect the laws relating to privilege taxes and there shall be printed on each license at the bottom thereof, the words: “This lice…

Clubs for the promotion or development of the art of canning, preserving or bottling; the art of cooking; art of sewing or handwork; the art of drawing or painting; or otherwise, the art of home or domestic science may sell their products without paying any of the taxes levied by…

(1) Any person sixty-five (65) years old or older, or any person blind, deaf or dumb, or maimed by loss of hand or foot, or loss of the use of the hand or foot, or any citizen of the United States who is disabled or suffering from an infirmity to the extent that he is unable to p…

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed as imposing a privilege tax on any national bank now or hereafter located in the State of Mississippi, or on any bank incorporated or chartered under the laws of the State of Mississippi.

No tax levied under the provisions of this chapter shall be levied, assessed or collected from or against, any municipality in this state which operates any business which is taxed hereunder, it being the intention of the legislature that all municipalities are specifically exemp…

No privilege tax license shall be required of hotels, restaurants, fruit stands and vendors of soft drinks, circuses, exhibitions, street fairs, or other amusements when the same are held within the enclosure of and in cooperation with the annual holding of any state, county or c…

Any person desiring to avail himself of any of the exemptions provided in Sections 27-15-225 through 27-15-231, shall, before engaging in such business, file with the officer whose duty it is to collect the privilege tax, an application for the exemption certificate accompanied b…

The certificate of exemption provided for above is hereby declared to be a personal privilege, peculiar to the grantee and is not transferable, and no business may be conducted thereunder by any person other than the grantee. The holder of any such certificate of exemption is her…

Each officer authorized to issue privilege licenses shall keep a privilege tax register in such form as the state auditor of public accounts shall prescribe in which shall be entered the names of all privilege taxpayers, the amount paid, the serial number of the license issued, t…

The privilege taxes paid to the officer collecting same shall be paid into the state treasury by him on the same day in which said funds are collected by said officer, and shall be reported by him monthly, except as otherwise provided by law. Each such officer shall, within twent…

(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonm…

(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Population” means the population as shown by the last census made by the United States; provided, that when any municipality makes and certifies an enumeration, as provided by law, it shall mean the population shown by such enumeration.(b) “Person…

All privilege taxes levied and imposed by this chapter shall be paid in addition to any and all other taxes, and, except to the extent otherwise provided by Section 27-15-7, the provisions of this chapter shall not affect the operation of any other sections of the Mississippi Cod…