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February 20, 2017

PENDER: If Lt. Gov. Reeves doesn’t warm to internet sales tax nothing will happen on state roads

IGEOFF PENDER: Realpolitik: Partial road funding is now up to Reeves Put all the talk of an “impartial study” and “two policy lanes running in the same direction” aside. Here’s the bottom-line, realpolitik on funding to fix Mississippi’s crumbling roads and bridges: If lawmakers don’t pass the internet sales tax bill with money earmarked for…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 20, 2017

SALTER: Opponents of online sales tax forget many substantive facts

Sid Salter: Ignore the online sales tax special interests The fight in Mississippi over a very straightforward decision regarding whether it’s in the state’s best interests to collect the same 7 percent sales tax on online sales that we have forced bricks-and-mortar retailers to collect since 1932 is getting heated. Opponents of online sales tax collections…