27-69-75 - Payment into treasury. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-69-75. Payment into treasury.
 

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. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 10203; Laws,  1932, ch. 92; Laws, 1934, ch. 125; Laws, 1972, ch. 488, § 2; Laws, 1984, ch. 478, § 25; Laws, 1987, ch. 322, § 29, eff from and after July 1, 1987 (Governor's veto overridden by Legislature on March 12, 1987).