Jackson Jambalaya

Where do revenues from online sales go? A lot of the big box stores are doing buy online and curbside delivery. Are those sales counted as municipal sales or are they counted as online sales and go to the state instead of the municipality? If I order something at Walmart online and pick it up in Flowood is that sales tax going to Flowood or the state general fund?

11:50, awesome question - online retailers made a killing during the worst of the stay at home orders.

Why should I care about State Line, which is in Wayne County?

What's up with posting the revenues of State Line? Who cares?

I still say Shad needs to look into the corruption at DOR. You might be very surprised at what his office finds.

Cities don't get their cut if the sale is online. It all goes to the state.

It goes to the State, then the State pays to the municipalities the amount due the municipalities from said sales tax revenue generated in/by the City. If I am not mistaken, what ultimately gets paid back to the City/Municipality is something measly like 1.8% of the collected Sales Tax revenue that is paid to the State (that number may be off but its something small - but which for some small towns in Mississippi is what they rely upon to make ends meet).

Imagine if we had sales tax revenue from legal marijuana, like so many other states allow.

But how do you determine if you do an online sale in Madison County does Madison, Flora, Canton, Ridgeland get the credit back from the state? While the town needs to get part of the tax revenue either the state has to decide or you will continue to see property taxes increase 5% per year for the next 4 years to make up for it.

Cities receive 18.2% of every sales tax dollar collected. $1,000,000 in sales at 7% = $70,000. Cities get $12,740 of the $70,000 in sales tax collected per $1,000,000 in retail sales. The diversion was around 21% until the legislature lowered the municipal diversion several years ago to balance the state budget.

FWIW...the retail parking lots in Madison are FULL of Hinds county tags every weekend and there are many on weekdays also. The Democrats choke hold on Jackson is causing more damage every day but when we get the zoo up and the flag down it's all gonna change over night.

DOR, at least in their press comments, has totally ignored mentioned any tax money received via internet sales, whether or not there's a nexus in Mississippi? Who among us does not think internet sales have quadrupled during the pandemic?

Are these figures being concealed for some reason? Don't expect Gunn to bring this up since he's their front line cheer-leader and Hose-Head wants things to appear worse than they are for obvious reasons.

2:24, aren't you glad to have us?

Municipalities get 1/7th of the sales tax collected on sales in their town, but they get nothing if the sale was over the internet.

Could you imagine the sales tax revenue of Herb Frierson would “allow us” to mail order wine and liquor? Too bad the liquor store lobbyist have him by the balls.

Several food comments on here. As I said, there really needs to be an investigation at DOR to shake up their unaccountability to their employers....us! I’ve heard too many things that are rotten in that bunch. And they collect our money. Yep

@1:46 is spot on, except in very rare cases (like City of Jackson) where they are allowed by the legislature to charge additional sales tax above the 7%. I believe in those cases, all of the additional collection goes to the City.

As for online sales... If online sales were reported by the zip code to which they are delivered, the Cities could get at least some relief from the loss in revenue due to shift away from local "brick 'n mortar" businesses.