{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-10-7","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-10-7","heading":"Apportionment.","body":"Except as provided in Section 27-10-17 and, unless the will otherwise provides, the tax shall be apportioned among all persons interested in the estate. The apportionment shall be made in the proportion that the value of the interest of each person interested in the estate bears to the total value of the interests of all persons interested in the estate. The values used in determining the tax shall be used for that purpose. If the decedent’s will directs a method of apportionment of tax different from the method described in this chapter, the method described in the will controls.","path":["Title 27. Taxation and Finance","Chapter 10. Uniform Estate Tax Apportionment Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.27.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:13Z","sha256":"ce2ad3379ddcf42f6e4f5607aa357590d7fb17f0fc4392a4ddf1ce8a1960ecd2","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-10-5","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-10-9","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}