Mississippi Code Title 27. Taxation and Finance § 27-15-239

Each officer authorized to issue privilege licenses shall keep a privilege tax register in such form as the state auditor of public accounts shall prescribe in which shall be entered the names of all privilege taxpayers, the amount paid, the serial number of the license issued, the period covered by such license, and the business location. This register shall constitute a permanent record of the officer authorized to collect privilege taxes and shall always be open for inspection by the public. At the end of the year, each such officer shall return to the state auditor of public accounts all unused privilege tax license blanks and three (3) years after the return of such unused privilege tax license blanks, the state auditor of public accounts shall destroy the same. All monies received by the officer authorized by law to issue privilege tax licenses shall be deposited in the state treasury on the same day in which such funds are collected. At the end of each month, the state auditor of public accounts shall carefully check the books and records of the state tax commission and of the commissioner of insurance and of the seafood commission, and shall verify the amounts paid or to be paid into the state treasury insofar as it relates to the collection of privilege taxes; and any duty herein required to the state auditor of public accounts may be performed by his designee for that purpose.