{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-64","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-64","heading":"Collection and payment of tax for periods of less than one year on carriers of property.","body":"(1) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and procedures to provide for the levy and collection of highway privilege taxes on carriers of property for periods of less than one (1) year, in accordance with the provisions of this section.\n(2) Highway privilege taxes may be paid for periods of three (3) months, six (6) months and twelve (12) months. The rate of tax for a three-month period shall be thirty-five percent (35%) of the annual rate as set forth in the tax rate schedule of Section 27-19-11. The rate of tax for a six-month period shall be sixty percent (60%) of the annual rate as set forth in the tax rate schedule of Section 27-19-11.\n(3) The three- and six-month periods provided for above need not necessarily coincide with quarterly or semiannual periods of the calendar year, tax year or fiscal year, but shall begin on the first day of any month of the year and shall run through the last day of the following third or sixth month, as appropriate. If application is made and the appropriate taxes and fees paid on or before the fifteenth day of a month, the license period shall begin on the first day of that particular month. When application is made and the appropriate taxes and fees paid after the fifteenth day of a month, the license period shall begin on the first day of the following month.\n(4) The commissioner shall provide for and require a distinctive license tag or other device which will facilitate the identification of vehicles which are taxed on a three- or six-month basis. Said tag or device shall be easily readable and clearly denote the month of expiration of the licensed period.","path":["Title 27. Taxation and Finance","Chapter 19. Motor Vehicle Privilege and Excise Taxes","Article 1. Motor Vehicle Privilege Taxes."],"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2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:13Z","sha256":"c42d6f394106448e0d9f6ba01671023cc838bac9151b8a0428dec1b2e892deb9","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-63","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-65","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."}