Title 27, Taxation and Finance

If a permittee shall at any time file a false report of any date or information required by this chapter, or shall fail, refuse or neglect to file any report as required by this chapter, or to pay the full amount of any tax required by this chapter, or fail to maintain accurately…

When any distributor or other person shall fail to submit his or its monthly report as hereinabove provided, or when any distributor or other person shall fail to keep such records as required hereinabove, or fail to allow inspection of such required records as provided in this c…

Each distributor of compressed gas shall maintain and keep for a period of three (3) years a record of all compressed gas received, acquired, manufactured, refined, purchased, sold or delivered within this state, together with invoices, bills of lading and other pertinent records…

(1) Any person operating a motor vehicle or motor vehicles of any type on the highways of the State of Mississippi that use or are capable of using any compressed gas, except liquefied natural gas, as a motor fuel shall, before operating such motor vehicle or motor vehicles, obta…

(a) The words, terms and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:(a) “Person” means any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, or any other group or combination actin…

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 displ…

Each person to whom a Class II or Class III compressed gas user’s decal is issued shall file an annual report with the commission. Such report shall be filed at a time designated by the commission, shall be on forms prescribed by the commission and shall contain such information …

If a motor vehicle on which the annual privilege tax or portion thereof has been paid is damaged to the extent it cannot be used or the compressed gas carburetion equipment has been removed from such motor vehicle, the owner or operator may obtain a refund of the unexpired portio…

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 impos…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to nonresident private carriers of passengers temporarily located in or operated on the highways of this state for a period of not more than thirty (30) days; nor shall this chapter apply to motor vehicles owned and operated by …

The commission shall have full access, ingress, and egress at all reasonable hours to and from any place or building where compressed gas may be received, stored, transported, sold, offered or exposed for sale, manufactured, refined, distilled, compounded or blended. The commissi…

The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to institute legal proceedings for any and all violations of this chapter, to recover taxes, damages or penalties due under this chapter. All taxes and damages recovered in any proceedings by the commission shall be paid over and …

In the event that any taxes, permit fees or penalties imposed by this chapter have been erroneously or illegally collected from a distributor or other person, the commission may, upon approval by the commission, permit such distributor or other person to take credit against a sub…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all proceeds of the tax collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid and apportioned by the commission in the same manner as payments on gasoline are made in accordance with Section 27-5-101, Mississippi Co…

All funds collected by the commission under the provisions of this chapter, or under the provisions of any other law, which may now or in the future be collected by said commission, are hereby designated as public funds of the State of Mississippi and shall be by it deposited in …

The commission may provide any department or agency of any state or the United States responsible for the enforcement of compressed gas taxes any information it may have relative to the manufacture, receipt, sale, use, transportation and/or shipment of compressed gas by any perso…

The comptroller is hereby given power and authority to make all rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, with reference to all petroleum excise tax provisions and exemptions governing the making of reports and contents of same and doing any and…

This chapter shall not release or relinquish any liability or penalty incurred or right accrued under the provisions of Chapter 264, Laws of 1946, as amended, or Chapter 267, Laws of 1946, as amended, as they existed before November 1, 1969, and such provisions shall be considere…

Before any person shall engage in business as a distributor of compressed gas, he shall first make application to the department, upon forms prescribed by the department, for a permit to engage in said business. If said application is approved, the department may require said app…

If the commission approves the application and bond, it shall issue a permit authorizing said applicant to engage in business as a distributor and said permit shall not be assignable or otherwise transferable, provided, however, that no such permit shall be issued unless the appl…

The Department of Revenue, hereinafter called the commission or the department, is hereby vested with the sole power and authority, and is charged with the duty of administering and enforcing the terms and provisions of this article.

(a) The words, terms and phrases as used in this article shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise.(a) “Natural gas” means a mixture of hydrocarbons and small quantities of nonhydrocarbons existing in the gaseous phase.(b) “Locomotive fuel” means die…

Any person subject to the tax imposed by this article shall apply to the commission for a “user’s permit” on forms prescribed by the commission. Said permit may be revoked by the commission at any time upon ten (10) days written notice, if said permittee shall fail to comply with…

(1) There is hereby levied and imposed a tax at a rate of:(1) Twelve Cents (12¢) per one thousand (1,000) cubic feet (MCF) upon any person using natural gas as a fuel in oil field or gas field production pumps in this state.(2) Three Cents (3¢) per one thousand (1,000) cubic feet…

The United States government, the State of Mississippi and all agencies, departments and political subdivisions thereof are exempt from the tax levied in this article.

The tax levied in this article shall become due and payable on or before the twentieth day of the month succeeding the month in which the tax accrues. Each person liable for the tax levied in this article shall file with the department a monthly report setting forth the quantity …

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…

Each person liable for the tax under this article shall maintain and keep for a period of not less than three (3) years records of the quantities of natural gas used, of the quantities of locomotive fuel used, the total miles traveled by railroad locomotives, the miles traveled b…

In the event that any taxes or penalties imposed by this article have been erroneously or illegally collected from a permittee or any other person, the commission may allow such permittee or other person to take credit against a subsequent tax report for the amount of the erroneo…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the proceeds of the tax levied in this article shall be deposited by the commission into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund, and such proceeds are hereby designated as public funds of the State …

The commission shall, upon request received from officials entrusted with the enforcement of similar laws of any other state, forward to such officials any information it may have relative to the receipt, sale, use, transportation or shipment of natural gas or locomotive fuel.

The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations with reference to the collection of the tax imposed herein and such other reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions hereof which, in its judgment, will cont…