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January 30, 2017

SALTER: Amazon sales tax negotiation a victory for taxpayers, small businesses

SID SALTER: Amazon sales tax negotiation was a victory for taxpayers, small business The political tea leaves were rather easy to read on the topic of last week’s blockbuster announcement that Amazon was the first major online retailer to volunteer to begin collecting Mississippi’s 7 percent sales tax – technically a “use tax” – on…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 30, 2017

CRAWFORD: Enrolling under-prepared students impacts IHL graduation rates

BILL CRAWFORD: Legislators should take hard look at admissions Speaker of the House Philip Gunn led a panel of lawmakers discussing the high costs of education in Mississippi to focus in on “the $35 million colleges and universities spend annually on remediation for students that need extra help once they get to college,” reported Mississippi…