Gov. John Bel Edwards’ idea to tax corporate sales has little support among business groups

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(Photo by The Associated Press) Weeks ahead of the legislative session that kicks off on April 10—and during which Gov. John Bel Edwards hopes to reform Louisiana’s tax code—the Edwards administration caught policymakers and business groups off guard by floating a new plan that would replace the state’s corporate income tax with a corporate tax on sales.

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