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I recently bought a Mobile home for a camp?
ByI 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?
5 Comments
January 24th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
This is really not a hunting question. Call your local tax assessor or town council and electric company.
January 24th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
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.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
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.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
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.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
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.