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If only our legislators and governor will listen.
- Mississippi Loses Again
The number of states that charge full sales taxes on groceries is dwindling. That's right. You lose. Mississippi is one of two states, along with Alabama, that levy the full-meal-deal sales tax on your meals. All other states either exempt food or...
- Mississippi Can't Afford A Lower Tax On Groceries?
Could this be the reason? On Friday, Mississippi lawmakers approved a multimillion dollar incentive package to secure a deal that will bring the Toyota plant to northeast Mississippi. The state's incentive package includes $293.9 million for Toyota,...
- I'll Eat Somewhere Else
Diners at Ocean Springs restaurants may have to pay a 2 percent tax in coming years.If this passes I'll just eat in Gautier, D'Iberville or Biloxi. Moran said part of the taxes will pay for a proposed sports facility on Highway 57. She said people...
- Taxes In Mississippi
Mississippi has the highest state sales tax on groceries - 7 percent - in the nation. That is far too much. Mississippi has the third-lowest excise tax on a pack of cigarettes - 18 cents - in the nation. That is far too little. Hope the legislature figures...
- Boo For Barbour
to embrace lowering the food tax is to embrace a culture of health and life, but to embrace keeping the cigarette tax at its present minuscule level is to embrace a culture of sickness and death. Governor Barbour vetoed a bill that would have lowered...
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Report Urges Lower Food Taxes in Mississippi
Coast municipalities from Waveland to Pascagoula will gain in sales tax revenues if the Mississippi Legislature passes a cigarette tax increase/food tax reduction bill, according to a report released last month by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University.The "Tobacco and Food Taxation Policy Options in Mississippi" report shows that Gulfport will receive $143,022 and Biloxi $101,650 in new sales tax revenues if the Legislature passes either House Bill 247 or Senate Bill 3098, both of which will increase the cigarette tax and reduce the sales tax on food from 7 percent to 3.5 percent.
If only our legislators and governor will listen.
- Mississippi Loses Again
The number of states that charge full sales taxes on groceries is dwindling. That's right. You lose. Mississippi is one of two states, along with Alabama, that levy the full-meal-deal sales tax on your meals. All other states either exempt food or...
- Mississippi Can't Afford A Lower Tax On Groceries?
Could this be the reason? On Friday, Mississippi lawmakers approved a multimillion dollar incentive package to secure a deal that will bring the Toyota plant to northeast Mississippi. The state's incentive package includes $293.9 million for Toyota,...
- I'll Eat Somewhere Else
Diners at Ocean Springs restaurants may have to pay a 2 percent tax in coming years.If this passes I'll just eat in Gautier, D'Iberville or Biloxi. Moran said part of the taxes will pay for a proposed sports facility on Highway 57. She said people...
- Taxes In Mississippi
Mississippi has the highest state sales tax on groceries - 7 percent - in the nation. That is far too much. Mississippi has the third-lowest excise tax on a pack of cigarettes - 18 cents - in the nation. That is far too little. Hope the legislature figures...
- Boo For Barbour
to embrace lowering the food tax is to embrace a culture of health and life, but to embrace keeping the cigarette tax at its present minuscule level is to embrace a culture of sickness and death. Governor Barbour vetoed a bill that would have lowered...