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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.…
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April 10, 2017

CRAWFORD: Rightsizing needed in #msleg; advocates shrinking number of lawmakers

BILL CRAWFORD: Legislature needs rightsizing, too Republican legislators insist they are making the right moves to “rightsize” state government, which includes shrinking the state budget. If they mean what they say, the Legislature, itself, should be on the rightsizing menu too. Mississippi has one of the larger legislatures in the United States, especially for our…