Taxation (New Orleans)
Tax for New Orleans elderly services should be rejected, BGR says
By Kevin Litten
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
March 12, 2019
New Orleans voters should reject a new tax later this month dedicated to senior services because it gives city...BGR comes out against proposed city elderly services tax
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
March 12, 2019
A new report by the Bureau of Governmental Research urges New Orleans residents to vote against a new property tax that...BGR Examines Elderly Services Tax Proposal
March 12, 2019
Today, BGR releases On the Ballot: New Orleans Elderly Services Tax Proposal, March 30, 2019. The report analyzes a...
Activists turn up the heat in New Orleans
By C.C. Campbell-Rock
Source: The Louisiana Weekly
March 11, 2019
Community activism is alive and well in New Orleans at the grassroot level. One group, The New Orleans Peoples’...New Orleans lawmakers see tough fight ahead for infrastructure money
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
March 10, 2019
With the Louisiana Legislature convening in exactly one month, the first proposals focused on raising more money for New Orleans road...Hotel taxes are at the center of Cantrell’s fight to provide more money for New Orleans infrastructure
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
February 24, 2019
This year agencies in New Orleans charged with overseeing the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, running the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center...Cantrell pressing governor to use convention center funds for New Orleans infrastructure
By Beau Evans and Julia O'Donoghue
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
February 22, 2019
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signaled she wants $75 million for city infrastructure repairs straight from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s...Nonprofit finds ‘lost penny’ in hotel taxes
By William Wann
Source: The Maroon
February 19, 2019
What was originally meant to be a temporary move to ease the construction of the Superdome may still be...Mayor Cantrell launches task force seeking portion of Convention Center surplus
By Rob Masson
Source: FOX 8
February 19, 2019
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants millions of dollars from the Convention Center and said the city...Death and Hotel Taxes: BGR releases new report on New Orleans hotel sales tax
By Jennifer Gibson Schecter
Source: Biz New Orleans
February 2019
The old idiom that nothing is certain but death and taxes remains true, with the possible addition of Roger...