{"id":11258,"date":"2025-01-16T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=11258"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:03:02","slug":"how-much-sales-tax-do-i-pay-when-i-buy-a-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/ufaq\/how-much-sales-tax-do-i-pay-when-i-buy-a-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"How much sales tax do I pay when I buy a vehicle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-list ewd-ufaq-page-type-distinct\" id='ewd-ufaq-faq-list'>\n\n\t<input type='hidden' name='include_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-include-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='exclude_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-exclude-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='orderby' value='title' id='ewd-ufaq-orderby' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='order' value='desc' id='ewd-ufaq-order' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='post_count' value='-1' id='ewd-ufaq-post-count' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='current_url' value='\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/11258' id='ewd-ufaq-current-url' \/>\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faqs'>\n\n\t\t<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-div ewd-ufaq-faq-column-count-one ewd-ufaq-faq-responsive-columns- ewd-ufaq-faq-display-style-default ewd-ufaq-can-be-toggled\" id='ewd-ufaq-post-11258-zyvNhwyZOs' data-post_id='11258'>\n\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title ewd-ufaq-faq-toggle'>\n\t\n\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='#'>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol ewd-ufaq-'>\n\t\t\t<span >A<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title-text'>\n\n\t\t\t<h4>\n\t\t\t\tHow much sales tax do I pay when I buy a vehicle?\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-clear'><\/div>\n\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-body ' >\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-categories'>\n\t\n\tCategory:\n\t\n\t\tMotor Vehicle Licensing\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin ewd-ufaq-faq-post'>\n\t<p>The sales tax rate is 5%, which is applied to the net purchase price of your vehicle (price after dealer\u2019s discounts and trade-ins). The taxable selling price is not reduced by the manufacturer\u2019s rebates.<\/p>\n<p>The 5% rate applies to cars, vans, buses and other private carriers of passengers and trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or less. Carriers of property and trucks with a vehicle weight exceeding 10,000 pounds are taxed at 3%. If you bought your vehicle out-of-state, paid sales taxes on the vehicle to that state, and first tagged the vehicle in Mississippi, the other state\u2019s sales tax will NOT be credited toward the amount of tax due in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A How much sales tax do I pay when I buy a vehicle? Category: Motor Vehicle Licensing The sales tax rate is 5%, which is applied to the net purchase price of your vehicle (price after dealer\u2019s discounts and trade-ins). The taxable selling price is not reduced by the manufacturer\u2019s rebates. The 5% rate applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"ufaq-category":[167],"ufaq-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/11258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ufaq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ufaq-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-category?post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"ufaq-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-tag?post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}