Ready for session
Mon, 04/12/2021 - 1:45pm
If there was a central theme at Friday morning’s Legislative Breakfast, it’s that Louisiana needs a centralized sales tax collection system.
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Policy paper: La. tax system reinforces racial disparities
Fri, 04/09/2021 - 1:06pm
Poor Louisiana households pay a bigger share of their income in state and local taxes than richer households, which helps to reinforce longstanding racial disparities, an advocacy group argues in a
Forecasters expect over-active hurricane season
Fri, 04/09/2021 - 1:02pm
After last year’s record-breaking hurricane season, forecasters are expecting another overactive season.
Louisiana residents on both sides of the aisle think they are paying too much in sales taxes
Fri, 04/09/2021 - 12:19pm
In 2018, it was only one-sixth of a penny that divided legislators over how much of an expiring penny of sales tax to extend before they compromised on 0.45 percent.
19 La. parishes to receive almost $110M in offshore energy revenue
Thu, 04/08/2021 - 5:39pm
Louisiana’s annual share of revenue from offshore oil-and-gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is almost $88 million, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced.