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RURAL PEOPLE, RURAL POLICY
Annual Municipal Salary Survey :
Taxation Issues:
- April, 2008. Alcoholic Beverage Revenue, Tax, and Consumption: A Brief for Decision-makers
This document was generated at the request of Senator Terry C. Burton for the purpose of providing an overview of tax revenue by source in the State of Mississippi. A comprehensive econometric and policy analysis of revenues, expenditures, and the impact of change to these variables is beyond the scope of this report. This report does not make any policy recommendations; it is intended to provide decision-makers with an overview of revenues and expenditures related to alcoholic beverages in the State of Mississippi and to provide a comparative framework in a concise format.
- March, 2008. An Overview of Mississippi General Revenue Receipts 2005 and 2007
The John C. Stennis Institute of Government prepared this document to provide information to the Mississippi State Legislature’s House Ways and Means Committee. The purpose of this document is to describe the sources of revenues to the State of Mississippi’s General Revenue Fund and changes to these revenues from 2005 to 2007. The document also provides relative comparisons between Mississippi and U.S. sources of revenue per capita and relative comparisons between Mississippi revenue sources per capita and those of other states in the U.S. At the request of Representative John L. Moore, additional data has been provided on revenue sources as a percentage of per capita Personal Income for each state, using state per capita Personal Income for the third Quarter of 2007.
- March, 2008. Mississippi Corporate Taxpayers, Sales Taxpayers, and Personal Income Taxpayers: An Overview for Decision-makers
The purpose of this study is to provide information for the public policy decision-making process in the State of Mississippi. Taxes are a complex subject matter. This study is designed to provide a brief, but accurate framework of the issues associated with tax revenues in the State of Mississippi. This document is not intended to make policy recommendations.
- December, 2007. The Inventory Tax and Mississippi’s Business Tax Climate: An Overview for Decision-makers
This study is designed to provide a brief, but accurate overview of the issues associated with the elimination of the inventory tax in the state of Mississippi. To assure brevity and to avoid pedantic academic discourse, extensive discussion of statistical methodology was eliminated from this text.
- February 20, 2007. Impact of S.B. 3098 on Municipal Sales Tax Diversions (200-1202c_r2)
Volume I - Senate District Maps
- February 20, 2007. Impact of S.B. 3098 on Municipal Sales Tax Diversions (200-1202d)
Volume II - House District Maps
- February 19 , 2007. Tobacco and Food Taxation (200-1202f)
Executive Summary - Prepared for Stennis Press Luncheon
- January, 2007. Tobacco and Food Taxation (200-1202)
Full Report - Policy Options in Mississippi
Katrina Related:
- July, 2007. The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina: Coastal Mississippi Two Years Later
A look at the quantitative data and numbers of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on sales taxes and gross sales, corporate
taxpayers, and personal income taxpayers in the six coastal counties of Mississippi.
- July, 2007. White Paper on Hurricane Katrina New Market Tax Credit Allocations
Hurricane Katrina Related Investment Incentives - Another Disaster for the State of Mississippi
- February, 2007. GulfGov Reports: Eighteen Months Later
A Continuing Look at the Recovery, Role, and Capacity of States and Localities Damaged by the 2005 Katrina and Rita Hurricanes.
- January 2007. Katrina's Impact on Gross Sales and Gross Tax
Katrina's Impact on Gross Sales and Gross Tax in Mississippi's Three Coastal Counties 2004 to 2006
- December 15, 2006. Katrina First Responders: Analysis and Recommendations Pursuant to House Bill 1324
Comprehensive study of the performance of first responders to Hurricane Katrina and related matters within the scope of House Bill 1324, 2006 Regular Session.
- December 2006. Technical Brief - Katrina's Aftermath (200-1206-01)
Global Legislative Recommendations in Katrina's Aftermath
- November 2006. Special Education Report - Katrina's Aftermath (200-1204)
A Look at Recovery, Roles, and Capacity of Mississippi Coastal School Districts Struggling and Rebounding After Hurricane Katrina
- July, 2006. The Impact of Katrina
Initial Report from Interviews Conducted in Coastal Mississippi - Preliminary Analysis
- July, 2006. Katrina's Impact on Sales Tax Diversions
Mississippi Gulf Coast Municipalities
Housing:
GulfGov National Reports:
GulfGov Reports are the result of a collaborative endeavor between the Rockefeller Institute and PAR of Louisiana. The Stennis Institute is proud to be a member of the project team. Reports produced by Stennis can be found in the Katrina section above and the combined national reports can be found via the link below:
http://www.rockinst.org/gulfgov/
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