Guest Commentary: Governor Edwards, Please Don’t Make Me Regret Moving to Louisiana

By Margaret Viator

02/26/2016

But raising the state sales tax without reducing other taxes will just knock the state of its top-five states for taxes and distance itself from the leaders in the country.

TAGS: Sales Tax, Tax Foundation

New Study: Governor Jindal’s Tax Reform Plan Benefits Louisiana Economy

By Margaret Viator

03/26/2013

The study finds that the Governor’s tax reform would create 11,810 new jobs in the state by 2017-- or roughly 3,000 jobs per year directly relate to these tax changes—while maintaining revenue neutrality.

TAGS: Beacon Hill Institute, Bobby Jindal, Income tax, Louisiana, Sales Tax, tax rates, tax reform

Louisiana’s Local Sales Taxes Highest in Nation

By Robert Ross

09/30/2011

Despite having the second lowest statewide sales tax rate in the U.S., a new study shows that Louisiana's combined state and local sales taxes are third highest in the nation, at 8.84 percent.

TAGS: Local Sales Tax, Sales Tax, Scott Drenkard, Tax Foundation

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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