"Retailer" shall apply to a person making retail sales through vending machines, by maintaining a store, or operating as a transient vendor, or renting or leasing tangible personal property.
"Retail sales" shall mean and include all sales of tangible personal property except those defined herein as wholesale and those made to a wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer or custom processor for resale or for further processing.
"Retail sale" shall include the value of any tangible personal property manufactured or purchased at wholesale which is withdrawn from the business or stock in trade and is used or consumed within this state in the business or by the owner or by any other person, whether or not in the regular course of business or trade.
"Retail sale" shall also include a sale invoiced to a retailer but delivered to another person who pays for the merchandise upon taking possession.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 27 - Taxation and Finance
§ 27-65-5. Definitions; "Wholesaler, jobber or distributor"; "Wholesale sales."
§ 27-65-7. Definitions; "Retailer"; "Retail sales."
§ 27-65-17. Selling tangible personal property wholesale and retail
§ 27-65-23. Miscellaneous businesses
§ 27-65-25. Sales of alcoholic beverages
§ 27-65-31. Seller to collect tax
§ 27-65-35. Failure to file return; notice
§ 27-65-39. Penalties for deficient or delinquent return
§ 27-65-40. Effect of state officer's or employee's failure to pay state sales tax
§ 27-65-41. Tax constitutes a debt
§ 27-65-43. Taxpayer must keep records
§ 27-65-51. Disbursement from treasury to taxpayer
§ 27-65-57. Enrolling a judgment
§ 27-65-59. Warrant for collection of tax
§ 27-65-61. Jeopardy assessment and warrant
§ 27-65-63. Execution of warrant by sheriff or special agent; fees
§ 27-65-65. Commissioner may bid at sales
§ 27-65-69. Sheriff and special agent not personally liable
§ 27-65-71. Enforcement not to be enjoined
§ 27-65-73. Sales tax as additional tax; remittances; how made
§ 27-65-79. Records; preserved
§ 27-65-81. Returns confidential; release of certain information under certain circumstances
§ 27-65-87. Administration of the chapter vested in the Commissioner of Revenue
§ 27-65-89. Employees appointed by commissioner
§ 27-65-91. Special agents designated by commissioner; authority
§ 27-65-95. Prior rights or actions not affected by this chapter
§ 27-65-101. Exemptions; industrial
§ 27-65-103. Exemptions; agricultural
§ 27-65-105. Exemptions; governmental
§ 27-65-107. Exemptions; utility