Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com
Apr 13, 2021 12:04 PM
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder’s proposal to centralize Louisiana’s sales tax collection system gets positive reviews from a House committee. Schexnayder proposes using a single board to collect local and sales taxes, which would make it easier on small businesses and assure the right amount of taxes is collected.
“Shame on us if we don’t put the mechanisms in place that our constituents back home are paying for today and we’re not collecting it doing our job.”
A task force came up with Schexnayder’s centralized sales tax collection proposal. It will need two-thirds support in both the House and Senate and Schexnayder says a constitutional amendment to streamline Louisiana’s sales tax system will appear before the voters in the fall.