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Louisiana sales tax bill draws enough opposition to kill it
A key group of House Republicans announced Wednesday its objection to a Senate-led effort to permanently keep a 0.45% state sales tax that is otherwise scheduled to roll off the books in four years, opposition that could doom the proposal’s chance of passage.
Still, senators plowed ahead with their effort to strip the tax’s expiration date and steer the money to road and bridge work, starting in 2025. The Senate Finance Committee voted 7-4 to send the proposal to the full Senate for debate.
But the Louisiana Conservative Caucus 41 GOP lawmakers in the House released a statement calling the Senate proposal “an irresponsible sales tax increase at a time when we’ve had billions of dollars come into our state” from the federal government that could pay for infrastructure.