Mississippi DOR issues marketplace facilitator guidance for food delivery
Posted on Sep 22, 2020 in State and Local Tax
Mississippi Notice 72-20-09 provides additional guidance on Mississippi’s marketplace facilitator law, which took effect on July 1, 2020. The Notice explains that a sale facilitated and delivered by a third-party food delivery service is not a “retail sale” by the facilitator. Rather, the restaurant will charge sales tax on the selling price it charged for the food. But if a third-party delivery company additionally makes direct sales of items from its own inventory, the delivery company must collect and remit sales tax on those sales.