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Why are some states’ sale taxes higher than others?

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When you sell across multiple states – or even within various localities in a single state – one striking observation emerges: the consistent inconsistency of sales tax rates. The federal income tax has just seven brackets to cover the whole span of what somebody can make.

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IRS Offers Tax Deadline Extensions for Louisiana Due to Hurricane Francine

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The Internal Revenue Service is offering tax deadline relief for individuals and businesses in the entire state of Louisiana, affected by Tropical Storm Francine that began on Sept. 3, 2025, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. These taxpayers now have until Feb.

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What’s new in sales tax?

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Louisiana’s legislature, working to the wire in special session, reportedly passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income tax and raised the state’s sales tax to 5%. Original plans had been to apply sales tax on dozens of services. A new sales tax on digital goods and services also stood.

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2023 in review: The year in sales tax

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This year, South Dakota eliminated its 200-transaction economic nexus transaction threshold, as did Louisiana’s threshold. Louisiana also eliminated resale and wholesale transactions as factors in the $100,000 threshold for marketplace facilitators. National sales tax H.R.25 National sales tax H.R.25

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State and Local Tax (SALT) Predictions for 2024

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We predict that at least two more states will enact elective PTE taxes, despite the looming expiration of the federal SALT cap. Income tax rate fluctuations States are facing a very uncertain and non-uniform fiscal environment at the moment, affording some, but by no means all, states the ability to reduce state income tax rates.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Scandal Somehow Gets More Scandalous; Deloitte Denied in Court; Withum Embiggens in Florida | 11.8.24

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Municipal Messes Delayed audit finds ‘material weaknesses’ in Elton’s finances and procedures [ KPLC (Louisiana)] The town agreed to address such deficiencies including timely adopting an operating budget, hiring someone qualified to prepare financial statements, and submitting required paperwork to the Legislative Auditor’s Office by the due date.

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The latest on a national sales tax

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The embattled bill, now in committee, was introduced early this year to replace the federal income tax. What’s at stake for the revenue of states that already have their own sales tax? The provisions This bill imposes a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the U.S. What’s in the bill? The big view?

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