27-67-501 - Title and purpose of article. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-67-501. Title and purpose of article.
 

This article may be cited as the salesman's tax law. 
 

The primary purpose of the article is to equalize the requirements of the laws of this state with regard to all persons soliciting sales of tangible personal property within this state and to protect those persons collecting and remitting the Mississippi sales tax, use tax and wholesale compensating tax from the unfair competition of persons who are not collecting and remitting such taxes to this state while enjoying the protection of the laws of this state, the use of its highways and all other benefits provided by the laws of this state. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 10148-01; Laws,  1956, ch. 411, § 1; Laws, 1958, ch. 580, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 17, 1958).