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State GOP leaders shifting position on online sales tax

Source: clarionledger.com - Nov 16, 2016

STARKVILLE — In his Fiscal Year 2018 Executive Budget Recommendation, Gov. Phil Bryant joined what has become a growing chorus of conservative Republicans who are willing to talk seriously about state legislation to collect Mississippi’s existing 7 percent sales tax on online sales as well as counter sales at bricks-and-mortar businesses in the state.

In the budget recommendation, Bryant concluded his opinions regarding online sales tax collections in this unequivocal manner: “These approaches do not create a new tax. They would simply allow Mississippi to enforce the collection of a tax that has been in place for decades.”

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