In Louisiana, sales taxes are way too high. They need to come down. By most measures, Louisianans pay the highest sales taxes (state and local combined) in the nation. This matters. Sales taxes at ...

A sales tax holiday, also referred to as a tax-free weekend or week, is a limited period during which certain eligible items are exempt from sales tax. These tax holidays are usually implemented by ...

The special session on tax reform is expected to wrap up Friday after lengthy negotiations over the last two weeks. Gov. Jeff Landry said the goal is to make Louisiana a more attractive place to do ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - While standing on the deck of a friend’s yacht last week in Bermuda, Gov. Jeff Landry praised a new Louisiana tax break on boat purchases in a short video he ...

Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a key bill in Gov. Jeff Landry’s sweeping and complex tax reform package. Most of Landry’s proposed bills, granting approximately $2 billion in ...

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase, giving Gov. Jeff Landry much of what he wanted after ...

Louisiana's only sales tax holiday celebrates the Second Amendment by promoting gun ownership Sept. 5 through Sept. 7 with a tax break for consumers and a sales spike for retailers. The Second ...

Louisiana lawmakers began debating bills Thursday that would revamp the state's tax code by lowering income taxes for all workers while adding sales taxes to services not currently taxed and raising ...

Louisiana officially started the new budget year with the nation’s highest sales tax rate, according to a new analysis from a nonpartisan think tank devoted to tax issues. The Tax Foundation report, ...

Yet less than half a year ago, Louisiana lawmakers went in the wrong direction. In the midst of a host of tax reforms and trade-offs, they actually raised state sales tax rates rather than reduced ...