INDReporter

Clock running on sales tax flub

by Jeremy Alford, LaPolitics

Money would have to paid from April 1 to the effective date of the legislation lawmakers are expected to pass in the special session that convenes Monday.

Just because the Legislature seems poised to fix a number of unintended consequences from the first special session in regard to the temporary suspension of sales tax exemptions, that doesn’t mean groups like the Girl Scouts are off the hook for paying the additional tax.

According to Kizzy A. Payton, press secretary for the Louisiana Department of Revenue, those changes are currently “in effect and state sales tax should be collected upon those transactions.”

Money would have to paid from April 1 to the effective date of the legislation lawmakers are expected to pass in the special session that convenes Monday.