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property. The term “warehous<strong>in</strong>g bus<strong>in</strong>ess” does not <strong>in</strong>clude any<br />

establishment which operates as a location where retail sales of<br />

tangible personal property are made to retail customers.<br />

Telecommunications<br />

Enterprises<br />

Entities engaged <strong>in</strong> the creation, display, management, storage,<br />

process<strong>in</strong>g, transmission or distribution for compensation of images,<br />

text, voice, video or data by wire or by wireless means, or entities<br />

engaged <strong>in</strong> the construction, design, development, manufacture,<br />

ma<strong>in</strong>tenance or distribution for compensation of devices, products,<br />

software or structures used <strong>in</strong> the above activities. Companies<br />

organized to do bus<strong>in</strong>ess as commercial broadcast radio stations,<br />

television stations or news organizations primarily serv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>-state<br />

markets shall not be <strong>in</strong>cluded with<strong>in</strong> the def<strong>in</strong>ition of the term<br />

“telecommunications enterprises.”<br />

Free Port Warehouses 13<br />

State law currently offer eligible warehouses, public or private, a license to operate as a free port<br />

warehouse and be exempted from all ad valorem taxes subject to the follow<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

• Personal property which is consigned or transferred to such warehouse for storage<br />

<strong>in</strong> transit to a f<strong>in</strong>al dest<strong>in</strong>ation outside <strong>Mississippi</strong> may be exempt, subject to the<br />

discretion of the govern<strong>in</strong>g authorities over the jurisdiction (city or county) <strong>in</strong><br />

which the warehouse or storage facility is located.<br />

• Caves or cavities <strong>in</strong> the earth, whether natural or artificial, do not quality under<br />

the Free Port Warehouse def<strong>in</strong>ition.<br />

• Licenses shall be issued by the local govern<strong>in</strong>g authorities.<br />

• Such personal property shall not be deprived of exemption because while <strong>in</strong> a<br />

warehouse, the property is bound, divided, broken <strong>in</strong> bulk, labeled, relabeled or<br />

repackaged.<br />

• Certa<strong>in</strong> required annual <strong>in</strong>ventory reports shall be filed with the county tax<br />

assessor.<br />

For further <strong>in</strong>formation and application contact your local county tax assessor/collector.<br />

1<br />

Code, §§ 27-35-1 through 27-35-167.<br />

2<br />

Const., § 112.<br />

3<br />

Code, § 27-39-317.<br />

4<br />

Ibid.<br />

5<br />

Code, § 19-11-7.<br />

6<br />

Code, § 27-35-55 et seq.<br />

7<br />

Code, § 27-39-317(c).<br />

8<br />

Code, § 27-39-317.<br />

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