Leveling the Corporate Tax Playing Field

Louisiana’s home-grown companies often compete for business against large, multistate, and multinational corporations whose size and wealth give them significant advantages. One is their ability to capitalize on the way Louisiana law is written to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes.

Some states have been able to successfully change their corporate tax laws to a system called “combined reporting.” It’s a comprehensive and – above all – fair policy approach that ends the inefficient and costly practices companies engage in to avoid taxes.

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The governor's plan will mainly benefit corporations and the wealthy, while working and middle-class families will pay more for services and products we use every day such as diapers, garbage collection, haircuts and home repairs. Louisiana’s tax system certainly needs to be improved, but this is the wrong way to do it.
Gov. Jeff Landry has called the Legislature into a special session to overhaul Louisiana’s tax structure.