I recently bought a Mobile home for a camp?
by admin on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 | 5 Comments
I lease property to hunt on in wilkinson county Mississippi. Purchased a mobile home for 1000 dollars and put it on the lease to use for a hunting camp. The electric company requires me to have a tax number for the mobile home to hook the power to it. Why do I have to pay taxes on a mobile home that is on leased land and is used for a camp?
This is really not a hunting question. Call your local tax assessor or town council and electric company.
Because it can operate on a road. Same reason you have to pay taxes on an automobile even if you don’t drive it on the road.
Should have had the electricity run first for farm use. Then get a good heavy duty extension. Talk to an licensed electrician. Ask others how they got power to their camps. It may make a difference if it is an RV/trailer vs. a true mobile home. If it is a true mobile home (permanent) you may be required to pay some form of property tax.
Because you are the user of the power, not the person to which the lease belongs, especially if the owner of the lease has never requested a power line. It’s sort of like paying the electric bill for an apartment that someone else owns, but that you live in.
It is a requirement of the county so that it can be taxed. Anything that is considered a home cannot be hooked up to electricity in that county unless it has a tax number. Just one more way they use to tax us to death.