11.14.24 – KARD – BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) The Louisiana legislature has advanced a bill that will add dozens of services to be subject to sales tax. Lawmakers showed some concerns about what the true cost to businesses and citizens will be. House Bill...
11.6.24 – Business Report – As the state faces an estimated budget hole of more than $700 million next year―largely due to the expiration of a temporary .45% sales tax and a tax on business utilities―Gov. Jeff Landry is urging the GOP-dominated Legislature...
11.3.24 – MSN New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,414 in the week ending October 26, down from 1,583 the week before, the Labor Department said. Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Louisiana dropped last week compared with the week prior,...
Gov. Jeff Landry has sent legislators the 23-item call for a special session to consider approving an overhaul of the state’s taxing system. BY JEREMY ALFORD, DAVID JACOBS Gov. Jeff Landry finally issued his special session call on Saturday,...
10.515.24 – WDSU -MANDEVILLE, La. Louisiana’s Insurance Commissioner said he’s still fighting to make the state’s insurance market more competitive and stable Tuesday, the commissioner held a town hall at Fountainbleu High School in Mandeville....
10.7.24 – MSN Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Louisiana dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,535 in the week ending September 28, down from...
