Title 27, Taxation and Finance

The sheriff or off-duty deputy sheriff employed by the county tax collector, upon receipt of a warrant or a jeopardy warrant, shall immediately seize any property of the taxpayer named in the warrant, in all respects, with like effect, and in the manner prescribed by law with res…

Whenever any property, personal or real, which is seized and sold by virtue of Sections 27-41-101 through 27-41-109, is not sufficient to satisfy the claim of the county for which distraint or seizure is made, the tax collector may, thereafter, and as often as the same may be nec…

It shall be the duty of every person assessed with state, county, school, road, levee and other taxing district and municipal ad valorem taxes to pay all such taxes to the tax collector on or before the due dates fixed and prescribed in Section 27-41-1 hereof, and if not paid, it…

The failure to pay the taxes due and collectible as provided in this chapter, promptly on the due dates herein fixed, shall mature all taxes levied and assessed during any year then remaining unpaid.

Upon default of the payment of any taxes upon the due date prescribed in this chapter, the tax collector shall proceed immediately to collect all taxes then remaining in default and unpaid, by distress and sale of any personal property liable therefor; provided, however, that if …

Any taxpayer in default may at any time prior to the sale of his property, real or personal, for such taxes pay the delinquent installment or installments of such taxes plus all fees, interest and costs accrued, and all necessary expenses and reinstate his installment payments; a…

Where the offices of tax collector and assessor are separate, the collector shall assess and collect taxes on land liable to taxation left unassessed by the assessor, and on land that has become liable to taxation since the last assessment. He shall also assess such other persons…

(a) If the governing authorities of a municipality and a county have entered into an interlocal agreement pursuant to Section 17-13-1 et seq., and the agreement is for the county to collect for the municipality those ad valorem taxes on real and personal property, motor vehicles …

The tax collectors shall collect the taxes from railroads and all other taxes on property assessed by the state tax commission from the assessment rolls in all respects as he collects other taxes; but in case of a sale for delinquent railroad taxes, the collector shall first seiz…

All coins made current by the laws of the United States, United States treasury notes, and national bank currency, or any lawful money or currency of the United States, shall be received by tax collectors in payment of taxes due the state. In addition thereto, all warrants drawn …

It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of education, upon the request of any person entitled to receive pay certificates issued by the county superintendent of education, to make out and deliver to said person a pay certificate in an amount equal to the state, county, …

A warrant against the state shall not be received from any tax collector in settlement or otherwise without affidavit being made by the tax collector, which the state auditor or the state treasurer is authorized to take and preserve, that he received such warrant from the origina…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the board of supervisors of each county shall furnish the tax collector of the county with a sufficient number of tax receipts, in books, printed in triplicate, in blank form, numbered serially by the bookmaker. …

The board of supervisors or municipal or other taxing districts, governing authorities or governing boards shall require all taxes levied for bonds and other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed and interest or betterment or improvement assessments to be paid on or before …

(1) Each collector shall give to everyone paying taxes a signed receipt, dated, numbered and filled in, so as to show by whom, and on what, taxes were paid, the amount of realty and personalty assessed; and the rate of levy for bonds and the interest thereon, and the rate of levy…

The board of supervisors of each county shall furnish its tax collector a sufficient number of the prescribed tax receipts, in the manner required by law. Such tax receipts shall be prepared and printed with spaces to show the total assessment of the property on which the taxes a…

The tax collector shall give to everyone paying taxes a signed receipt filled in as set forth in Section 27-41-33 and as otherwise required by law. In the event any home which is exempt from taxes as provided by the Homestead Exemption Law is not subject to any ad valorem taxes, …

The state tax commission is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe the form for tax receipts to be used by the county tax collector, which shall be prepared so as to enable the tax collector to conveniently comply with the requirements of the preceding sections. A sample of …

Each tax collector shall enter in a well-bound cash book kept for the purpose, the date and number of each tax receipt issued by him, the name of the person paying taxes, and the amount paid for each tax account, which entry shall be made at the time of issuing the receipt, and t…

It shall be the duty of the tax collector to present the cash book, required by Section 27-41-39 to be kept by him, to the board of supervisors or county auditor when required. Upon final settlement with the auditor of public accounts, the cash book shall be produced before him, …

The book of duplicate receipts for taxes provided for, whether filled or not, shall, at the time of making final report to the board of supervisors and county auditor each year, be delivered by the tax collector to the clerk of the chancery court, and be received, receipted for, …

When the collector shall not find property in his county out of which to collect the taxes due by any person, and such person shall have property, real or personal, in another county, or shall have removed to another county, the collector shall certify the assessment to the colle…

If the taxes assessed shall not be paid when due, and sufficient real and personal estate cannot be found on which to levy the same, the collector shall ascertain who are indebted to the person liable for the taxes, and shall make a list thereof, and advertise the indebtedness fo…

It shall be the duty of the collector to give notice, in writing, to the debtor of such taxpayer, which notice shall bind the debt in his hands and to the delinquent taxpayer, if he be a resident of the county, five (5) days before sale. If the delinquent taxpayer be not a reside…

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all municipalities in the State of Mississippi, including those operating under special charters, provided, however, that municipalities operating under special charters, wherein ad valorem taxes become delinquent on any date other th…

The indebtedness of the state or any county, city, town, village, or board to any delinquent taxpayer shall be subject to sale as provided in Sections 27-41-47 and 27-41-49. Notice in such case shall be given to the person whose duty it is to issue warrants for payment of the ind…

The owner of the debts or property sold under Sections 27-41-47, 27-41-49 and 27-41-51 shall have six (6) months from the day of sale in which to redeem his property, by complying with the conditions prescribed for the redemption of land sold for taxes; and the assignment of the …

Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27-41-2 and 27-41-59(2), after the fifth day of August in each year hereafter, the tax collector shall advertise all lands in his county on which all the taxes due and in arrears have not been paid, as provided by law, as well as all land …

If there be no newspaper in the county, or if there be none the proprietor of which will undertake and make the publication for the compensation allowed by law, the tax collector shall post such advertisement and a list of said lands at some public place in each supervisor’s dist…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-41-2, on the first Monday of April, if the tax collector has exercised his option to hold a tax sale on that day, and on the last Monday of August, as the case may be, if the taxes remain unpaid, the tax collector shall proceed to se…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may defer for a period of up to three (3) years ad valorem tax on real property and/or inventory, including ad valorem taxes imposed on commodities…

Land in cities, towns, or villages shall be sold by lots or other subdivisions or descriptions by which it is assessed; and it shall not be necessary to offer less than a lot, but it shall not be an objection that less than a lot was sold if it bring enough to pay the taxes for w…

If a tax collector sells any land after he shall have received the taxes due thereon, he shall refund to the purchaser the money paid and such sale shall be void.

If from any cause a sale of any land for taxes which is liable to such sale shall not be made at the time appointed by law for such sale, it may be sold thereafter, in the same or a subsequent year, at any time designated therefor by order of the board of supervisors. Notice of a…

If from inadvertence or oversight a sale of any land for taxes which is liable to such sale shall not be made at the regular time appointed by law for such sale, it may be sold thereafter at any time designated therefor by an order of the board of supervisors, which order need no…

In case of grave public emergency, to be determined by the Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney General, the Commissioner of Revenue, may postpone in any county the date fixed by law for the sale of lands for delinqu…

Nothing in Sections 27-41-3 and 27-41-5 shall be construed to authorize any board of supervisors or the authorities of any municipality to postpone the payment of taxes in violation of any contract entered into prior to the passage of this chapter.

No civil suit or action shall hereafter be brought by or on behalf of the state or any of its districts, municipalities or political subdivisions on account of the failure, prior to the passage of this chapter, of any tax collector, whether county, district, municipal or levee di…

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 shal…

The tax collector shall, upon payment of the purchase price, deliver to the purchaser of lands sold for taxes a receipt showing the amount paid, a description of the land sold, the amount of taxes due thereon, and the date of the sale; and such receipt signed by the tax collector…

If any land be sold for more than the amount of taxes due and all costs, the tax collector shall report the amount of excess to the chancery clerk, and on his receipt warrant therefor, shall pay the same into the county treasury. The board of supervisors is directed to transfer a…

The tax collector shall on or before the second Monday of May and on or before the second Monday of October of each year, 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, s…

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 …

The owner of lands sold or struck off to this state as provided in Section 27-41-81 shall not have the right to cut merchantable timber, cordwood or brush from any such land until such land be redeemed from the tax sale and title again be perfected in the individual owner thereof…

The attorney general, by and with the consent of the Governor, may employ special counsel to assist him in the investigation and prosecution of such claims or demands and suits under Section 27-41-83; and he may contract to pay such attorneys so employed such reasonable compensat…

The board of supervisors of any county affected is hereby authorized to pay such reasonable expenses, except attorneys’ fees, as may be incurred in obtaining information deemed necessary to maintain an action under Section 27-41-83. In any case where funds are received by the Att…