SID SALTER: Mississippi's E-Commerce losses mounting

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SID SALTER: Mississippi's E-Commerce losses mounting
1/11/2006 6:53:02 AM
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The fight now underway in the Legislature to give Mississippi families a break by a systematic elimination of the current 7 percent sales tax on food by raising Mississippi's ridiculously low 18 cents per pack tax on cigarettes is indeed worthwhile.





E-Commerce growing


But if state government really wants to take a serious look at tax equity questions, one lumbering elephant in the room is the amount of sales tax Mississippi is failing to collect on so-called "E-Commerce" or Internet sales.


The greatest E-Commerce losses occur in states relying most heavily on the sales tax as a revenue source. Mississippi has long been a state hooked on sales taxes as the backbone of the state's tax structure.


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