Title 27, Taxation and Finance

(1) The assessment when made and completed shall remain open for thirty (30) days for inspection in the offices of the Department of Revenue and be subject to objections by the railcar companies for the same time period. The Board of Tax Appeals shall hear all objections, and it …

Payments as determined by the State Tax Commission shall be sent to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the counties of the state to which payments have been allocated, and the respective clerks shall apportion the county payment to the municipalities and other taxing distri…

It shall be the duty of all railroads operating in the State of Mississippi to furnish to the Mississippi state tax commission, on blanks to be furnished by the said commission to the railroad companies operating in the State of Mississippi, a true and accurate record of the car …

Any company, failing to make a report to the Mississippi Tax Commission as herein required, or which shall fail to comply with any of the above provisions, shall be prohibited from doing business in the State of Mississippi, or operating its rolling stock over any railroad in the…

All taxes for which any company is liable under the provisions of this article shall be collected and recovered by the State Tax Commission in the same manner provided by law for the collection of sales taxes; and all administrative provisions of the Mississippi Sales Tax Law, in…

(a) As used in this article, the words shall have the following meanings:(a) “Aircraft” means any contrivance, fully equipped for flight, used or designed for navigation or flight through the air.(b) “Airline company” means any person who undertakes, directly or indirectly, to en…

(1) The department shall annually assess, adjust, equalize and apportion the valuation of all aircraft of each airline company of a type or model operated in this state by such airline company by such type or model. Such aircraft shall be valued by the department in the same mann…

(a) The valuation of such aircraft apportioned to this state shall be determined by the commission to be the proportion of the total valuation of such aircraft determined on the basis of the arithmetical average of the following two ratios:(a) The ratio which the total time sched…

The aggregate value of the aircraft of an airline company determined under the provisions of Section 27-35-705 is further apportioned to the local taxing entity or entities in which such aircraft operated during the preceding calendar year. This apportionment shall be made on the…

The local taxing entity or entities to which the value of aircraft is apportioned under the provisions of Section 27-35-707 shall levy and collect a tax upon such apportioned valuation as it would upon any other taxable property subject to taxation by that entity or entities.

The ad valorem taxation authorized by this article shall be in lieu of all other ad valorem taxes upon the aircraft of airline companies.

(a) The following definitions shall be applied to the terms used in this article:(a) “Agreement” shall mean contract, and shall include any renewal or renewals and alterations of a contract.(b) “Political subdivisions” shall mean any county, municipality, levee district, drainage…

If the United States declines to deal with a county with respect to any political subdivision whose jurisdictional limits are within or coextensive with the limits of the county, or in the event the jurisdictional limits of a political subdivision lie within more than one county,…

All money received by a political subdivision pursuant to Section 27-37-9 or 27-37-11 shall be deposited in such fund or funds as may be designated in the agreement; provided, however, that if the agreement does not make such designation, the money shall be deposited in such fund…

The amount of any payment of sums in lieu of taxes may be based on the estimated cost to each political subdivision, for and on whose behalf an agreement is entered into, of performing services for the benefit of a project during the period of the agreement, after taking into con…

No provision of this article shall be construed to relieve any political subdivision of the state, in the absence of an agreement for payment of sums in lieu of taxes by the United States, as provided in this article, of the duty of furnishing for the benefit of a project all ser…

It shall be the duty of the state tax commission to obtain annually, or as often as may be necessary or expedient, from the farm security administration or from any agency vested with power to act, a correct legal description of all lands acquired or owned by the United States fo…

It shall be the duty of each county assessor and of each chancery clerk to furnish the state tax commission with all information with respect to such lands for a project, showing the legal description, and the estimated value of the land and all elements thereof. The tax commissi…

When the necessary information has been received and the same has been verified, the tax commission shall make up, annually, for each county, a roll or schedule as required by Section 27-37-21 and shall make two (2) true and correct copies thereof. The original shall be preserved…

Upon receipt by the assessor of the roll or schedule of land, he shall compare the same with the assessment roll of the county, and in land assessment years, shall enter upon the assessment roll of the county all lands listed upon said roll or schedule, in the appropriate place; …

When the assessor and chancery clerk shall receive the roll or schedule of land from the state tax commission, as provided by Section 27-37-21 of this article, in the years in which land is not assessed, or after the completion of the roll in land assessment years, they shall pre…

The state tax commission is hereby directed and authorized to request for and on behalf of the State of Mississippi the payment by the United States of any sums in lieu of taxes as authorized and contemplated by Section 2, Public Law 845, 74th Congress, approved June 29, 1936, (P…

The governing body of any county in this state is hereby authorized and empowered, (a) to make requests of the United States for and on behalf of the county and other political subdivisions whose jurisdictional limits are within or coextensive with the limits of the county, for t…

The state tax commission, shall, upon the consummation of the agreement, or agreements authorized by this article, or any renewal or alteration thereof, file with the state treasurer an itemized statement of the amounts due to the state. Upon receipt of the said sum by the treasu…

Each agreement entered into pursuant to Section 27-37-3 shall contain the names of the political subdivisions with respect to which it is consummated and a statement of the proportionate share of the payment by the United States to which each political subdivision shall be entitl…

On or before the date on which payment of sums in lieu of taxes is due, the county auditor shall present a statement to the United States, in the name of the county, in the amount of such payment. Whenever such payment is received, the county auditor shall issue a receipt therefo…

Immediately after receiving a payment in lieu of taxes, the county auditor shall apportion and pay it to the several political subdivisions in accordance with the agreement under which the payment was received, notwithstanding any other law controlling the expenditure of county f…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, the payments received and to be received by the State of Mississippi and counties therein from the Tennessee Valley Authority in lieu of taxes under Section 13 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as am…

At the end of each fiscal year, the State Tax Commission shall ascertain from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the extent it has the necessary data available, and from other sources, including electric power associations and other power distributors, to the extent it does not, t…

In those counties in which the power operations of the Tennessee Valley Authority are carried on and in which the Tennessee Valley Authority had acquired properties previously subject to state and local taxation, the board of supervisors of such counties are hereby authorized to …

The payments received by the board of supervisors direct from Tennessee Valley Authority shall be deposited to a special fund and the said board of supervisors shall ascertain at the end of each fiscal year what portion of said payments received by it during the preceding twelve …

This chapter may be cited as the “Mississippi Telecommunications Tax Reform Act.”

(1) The Legislature finds that one measure of the state’s economic competitiveness is the presence of an efficient and affordable telecommunications infrastructure using the latest technological advancements. (2) The Legislature further finds that the telecommunications industry …

(1) With respect to ad valorem taxes becoming due after January 1, 2001, every person providing telecommunications services subject to sales tax under Section 27-65-19(1)(d), Mississippi Code of 1972, and which operates in more than six (6) counties, shall be entitled to a refund…

(1) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Telecommunications Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund, into which shall be deposited the money specified in Section 27-65-75(15) and such other money as the Legislature may provide by appropriation. The money…

To the extent that a person providing telecommunications services that are regulated by the Mississippi Public Service Commission experiences a tax savings as a result of the provisions of this chapter, such savings shall inure to the benefit of the customers of such person in a …

The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to transfer funds deposited from the withholding of state ad valorem taxes and the matching levy, including interest earned thereon, which were withheld for a purpose held by the supreme…

This article shall be entitled the “Advertisement of Proposed Ad Valorem Tax Increases Act.”

(1) The governing body of all taxing entities shall hold a public hearing at which time the budget and tax levies for the upcoming fiscal year will be considered. (2) (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the public hearing shall be advertised in accordance with th…

(1) Unless the increased revenue in a budget is derived solely from the expansion of a school district’s ad valorem tax base, a school district shall not budget an increase in an ad valorem tax effort in dollars for support of the school district unless it first advertises its in…

No governing authority, having the power to impose or levy ad valorem taxes, shall, after the expiration of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1932, make any ad valorem tax levy or levies contrary to the provisions of this article.

The board of supervisors of any county is hereby empowered to levy ad valorem taxes on taxable property in the respective counties in any one (1) year, as shown by the assessment roll containing assessments of property made as of January 1 of the year, and the assessment of motor…

(1) In addition to the levy authorized by Section 27-39-303, the board of supervisors may annually impose a countywide ad valorem tax levy or levies for the maintenance and/or construction of roads and bridges. (2) For each fiscal year, the aggregate receipts from taxes levied fo…

Municipalities may levy ad valorem taxes upon all taxable property within such municipality for general revenue purposes and for general improvements. Further, the governing authorities of any municipality may make additional levies for special purposes as authorized by law. Any …

The limitations fixed by the foregoing sections shall not apply to any levy made for the payment of indebtedness with interest thereon, nor to special taxes for drainage, levees, sidewalks or street improvements, when such taxes are assessed against particular property. Nothing h…

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] Any member of a board of supervisors or aldermen or city commissioners who shall vote to impose a tax levy in excess of the limits as fixed by this article shall…