All taxes levied by this chapter shall be payable to the commissioner in cash, or by personal check, cashier's check, bank exchange, post-office money order or express money order, and shall be deposited by the commissioner in the State Treasury on the same day collected. No remittance other than cash shall be a final discharge of liability for the tax herein assessed and levied, unless and until it has been paid in cash to the commissioner.
All tobacco taxes collected, including tobacco license taxes, shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
Wholesalers who are entitled to purchase stamps at a discount, as provided by Section 27-69-31, may have consigned to them, without advance payment, such stamps, if and when such wholesaler shall give to the commissioner a good and sufficient bond executed by some surety company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned to secure the payment for the stamps so consigned. The commissioner shall require payment for such stamps not later than thirty (30) days from the date the stamps were consigned.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 27 - Taxation and Finance
§ 27-69-7. Permit and privilege taxes required; penalty for violations
§ 27-69-9. Permit may be revoked and reinstated
§ 27-69-11. Penalties for operating without a permit
§ 27-69-13. Applicability of tax
§ 27-69-17. When distributors not required to affix stamps
§ 27-69-19. Dealers liable; exception
§ 27-69-25. Unpaid taxes a debt
§ 27-69-27. Manner and time of affixing stamps; manufacturers and wholesale distributors excepted
§ 27-69-31. Compensation to dealers
§ 27-69-33. Segregation of stock for interstate shipment
§ 27-69-35. Records of dealers
§ 27-69-37. Preservation of invoices
§ 27-69-39. Liability of persons, carriers, etc.
§ 27-69-47. Penalty for reuse of stamps
§ 27-69-53. Commodities subject to confiscation
§ 27-69-55. Procedure when goods are confiscated
§ 27-69-57. Commissioner may compromise confiscation
§ 27-69-59. Unlawful sale; search and seizure
§ 27-69-61. Injunction by commissioner
§ 27-69-65. Commissioner to administer provisions of this chapter
§ 27-69-67. Peace officers to assist in enforcement
§ 27-69-69. Municipalities may impose privilege tax upon dealers in cigarettes
§ 27-69-71. Agents of the commissioner
§ 27-69-73. Rules and regulations
§ 27-69-75. Payment into treasury
§ 27-69-77. Records of commissioner
§ 27-69-79. Nonresident tobacco dealers; state reciprocity as to requirements for doing business