Indicate your election to contribute all or part of your 2003 income tax refund to one or more of the four (4) funds approved by the Legislature below. Your contribution may be claimed as a tax deductible charitable contribution on your state and federal income tax returns. Once your return is filed, your contribution is final and cannot be refunded.

Wildlife Heritage Fund

You may elect to contribute all or part (at least $1) of your income tax refund to the Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Fund. These refund donations are used to study, protect and manage our non-game wildlife, endangered species and special natural areas.

Since 1986, when the Wildlife Heritage Fund was established, tax refund contributions have been used to:

1. fund more than one hundred research projects which produced valuable information on rare plant and animal species;
2. reintroduce bald eagles to our state's barrier islands;
3. record and publish the songs and sounds of Mississippi's birds and frogs; and
4. help rehabilitate injured birds of prey.

If you are due a refund and wish to contribute to the Wildlife Heritage Fund, please write in the amount you wish to donate below. If you are not due a refund, but wish to contribute, make a check or money order payable to the Wildlife Heritage Fund and mail it to:

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

P. 0. Box 451

Jackson, MS 39205-0451.

Educational Trust Fund

You may elect to contribute all, or any portion, of your income tax refund (at least $1) to the Mississippi Educational Trust Fund.

Your donation is tax deductible and will be placed in this trust fund which will be used for the improvement of education within the State of Mississippi.

The principal of the trust fund shall remain inviolate and shall be invested as provided by general law. Interest and income derived from investment of the principal of the trust fund may be appropriated by a majority vote of the elected membership of each house of the Legislature and expended exclusively for the education of the elementary and secondary school students and/or vocational and technical training in this state.

Commission For Volunteer Service Fund

You may elect to contribute all or part (at least $1) of your income tax refund to the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service Fund. These refund donations may be expended by the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Services to advance community service and volunteerism among Mississippians.

Fire Fighters Memorial Burn Center Fund

You may elect to contribute all or part (at least $1) of your income tax refund to the the Mississippi Fire Fighters Memorial Burn Center Fund. Donations to the Fund will be forwarded to the Burn Center for use in its operations.

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