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  • Search results for: "tax commission"

11 Search Results Found For: ""tax commission""

  • Property tax breaks eyed as panel examines ways to get rid of income tax

    A panel of state lawmakers is studying the possible elimination of personal and corporate income taxes in Louisiana. One option it’s probing to offset the loss of state income tax revenue is to repl
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  • Mary Zervigon, tireless civic activist and fixture at City Hall for decades, dies at 83

    Mary Keller Zervigon, who held posts in two mayoral administrations and spent countless hours serving on civic boards working to improve the city, died Saturday at her New Orleans home of complication
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  • There are 4 constitutional amendments on Louisiana ballots Saturday. Here’s what they mean.

    After years of doing taxes the same way, Louisiana voters beginning Saturday are being asked to decide if the state should head in a different direction. Forty-three parishes, like Orleans, are choosi
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  • Erroll Williams faces three challengers in citywide race for New Orleans Assessor

    Three candidates have lined up to challenge longtime Orleans Parish Assessor Erroll Williams in this fall’s election. Anthony Brown, Carlos J. Hornbrook and Andrew “Low Tax” Gressett each blamed
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  • Louisiana ballot measures would change tax structure, collections

    Voters in Louisiana will go to the polls on Nov. 13 to decide on constitutional amendments that would change the way taxes are structured and collected in the state and how the state budget is managed
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  • Property taxes for New Orleans homes have surged; now businesses could get a huge tax cut

    Over the past two years, thousands of homeowners across New Orleans have opened unwelcome letters from the Orleans Parish assessor’s office providing notice of big jumps in the assessed values o
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  • Newell: Does NOLA assessor rely on “sales chasing” to set property values?

    The Orleans Parish Assessor Erroll Williams is responsible for determining the value of your real estate, your home and its improvements, and that creates a little of $600 million in property taxes to
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  • How BGR’s Government Monitoring Work Supports Our Mission

    By Stephen Stuart Vice President and Research Director It’s not nearly as visible to citizens as our research reports and the events we present. But monitoring government entities in the greater New
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  • (Opinion) Newell: Compromise, co-operation can’t be dirty words as Mayor, Council grapple with tax relief measure

    The City Council has made a request to cut tax rates for property owners, and an agreement is under consideration. The plan is to move some individual millages around to prioritize infrastructure and
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  • 10 Louisiana parishes with the highest property tax rates – 3 are in metro New Orleans

    Update: A clarification was added to this story to indicate that municipal taxes were not factored in the Louisiana Tax Commission’s rankings. Three parishes in metro New Orleans were in th
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