

Possible Medicaid cuts downplayed
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, downplayed the possibility of cuts in Medicaid even as other congressmen said they are possible....

Louisiana is No. 1 ... in sales tax rate
BATON ROUGE – It’s not often that Louisiana leads the country in any category. But for several years, the state has gone above and beyond...


Income tax lowered; sales tax hike OK'd
BATON ROUGE — Republican Gov. Jeff Landry got the Louisiana Legislature to back his bet of lowering individual and corporate income taxes...


Senate undos some cuts OK'd by House
BATON ROUGE — Some tax cuts adopted by the state House of Representatives last week were undone by a Senate committee on Tuesday when it...

Part of Landry plan hits bump
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious tax plan, which had previously encountered minimal resistance, hit its first bump on Thursday...


Revisions to tax laws breezing through State House
BATON ROUGE — The House continued Wednesday to revamp the state tax system, passing bills to cut business tax rates, eliminate credits...