Mississippi Code Title 27. Taxation and Finance § 27-25-9

The tax herein levied shall not apply to, nor shall such tax be required of, those individual owners of timber who occasionally sever or cut the same from their own premises, to be utilized by them in the construction or repair of their own structures, buildings or improvements, or for home consumption or used in the processing of any farm products, or to a purchaser or consumer of timber, or its products, on which the tax herein levied has been paid.