Louisianans are paying a bigger percentage of sales tax than anyone else in the U.S. at nearly 10%, which critics describe as regressive because sales taxes take a larger percentage of income from low-income taxpayers than from high-income earners. The 2023 Tax Foundation rankings list Louisiana at the top in combined state and local sales
Louisiana’s combined local and state sales tax remains the nation’s highest
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