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April 10, 2017

PENDER: Info in #msleg on need-to-know basis, and rank-and-file apparently don’t need to know until time to vote

GEOFF PENDER: What the Legislature has here is a failure to communicate Alan Lange, at Y’all Politics, recently penned: “By condensing almost the entirety of legislative appropriations and finance issues into the end of the session (over a weekend, no less), there is an enormous amount of pressure put on all things. Relative decisions on spending…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 10, 2017

Use tax collection up 8.9 percent in March due to voluntary collection by Amazon, other retailers

Internet collections appear to have impact It appears that the voluntary collection of the use tax by Amazon and other online retailers is having a positive impact on Mississippi’s revenue collections. For the month of March, the state collected $20 million in use tax – up 8.9 percent from the amount collected in March 2016.…