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Mississippi DOR Responds to Requests to Relief

The Mississippi Department of Revenue is aware of the new pressures on the business community and state governments in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic. We are committed to doing what we can to help provide relief and...more

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Physical Presence Test Giving States Authority to Collect Sales Tax from Remote Sellers

On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court rendered its long awaited decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair and overturned the Court’s 50-year old physical presence nexus standard arising from Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992) and...more

Ole Miss Substantially Prevails in Tax Court Case over Taxability of Coach Appearances

Tax exempt organizations must report and pay tax on their “unrelated business income.” Butler Snow recently represented The University of Mississippi (“UM”) in a federal income tax dispute in the United States Tax Court...more

Mississippi Supreme Court Finally Disconnects The Line On Dividend Exclusion Statute In The AT&T Case

In a previous article, we summarized AT&T’s 16-year effort, in two separate lawsuits, to have declared unconstitutional two Mississippi income tax statutes on the alleged basis that they placed a greater tax burden on AT&T...more

Mississippi Legislature Passes Significant Tax Relief

On April 18, 2016, the Mississippi Legislature passed Senate Bill 2858 and enacted the “Taxpayer Pay Raise Act of 2016.” Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves describes the Act as the largest tax relief package in Mississippi...more

Hold The Phone! AT&T’s Constitutional Challenge To Mississippi’s Dividend Exclusion Statute Is Still Alive

A Mississippi trial court has again found unconstitutional the state’s dividend exclusion statute, which disadvantages certain multistate taxpayers as compared to solely Mississippi taxpayers. This result comes from AT&T’s...more

Summary of the 2014 Mississippi Taxpayer Fairness Act

This omnibus tax legislation, House Bill No. 799, was signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant on April 11, 2014, after passing the House of Representatives by a unanimous vote 121-0, and by a Senate vote of 40-9. This...more

New Mississippi Law Modernizes The Statute of Limitations for Audits of Tax Returns

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant recently signed into law a bill enacted during the 2013 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature. This new law improves and modernizes the Statute of Limitations that applies to the...more

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