Posted on
June 17, 2011
in Legislative Update: Louisiana’s Taxation Strategies Garner National Attention
Tax Foundation interview’s Pelican Institute’s Fergus Hodgson
NEW ORLEANS, La. – With so many tax proposals proceeding in the Louisiana legislature, the Tax Foundation – a nonpartisan, D.C.-based policy institute – checked in this morning with the Pelican Institute. Fergus Hodgson is the Institute’s capitol bureau reporter, and he explained the status of the Amazon tax, the cigarette tax, and the income tax. Click below to listen – 11 minutes.
[audio:http://bit.ly/lnMNlP]The Tax Foundation has also written on what the Amazon tax means for Louisiana and tax jurisdictions of the states.
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