At the table: An East Baton Rouge Parish committee tasked with establishing criteria for granting tax breaks to manufacturers under the Industrial Tax Exemption Program is meeting today on the third floor of City Hall, 222 St. Louis St. Representatives from Together Baton Rouge and ExxonMobil are expected to attend.
Call waiting: If you’re thinking about calling the Louisiana Revenue Department to check on an income tax refund, you might want to try the agency’s website instead. The department says taxpayers will get quicker answers about the status of their refunds by doing their own search online. To check the status of a refund online, taxpayers need their Social Security number, filing status and refund amount. The department says more than 400,000 individual income tax refunds have been issued so far this year. May 15 is the deadline for filing personal income taxes in Louisiana. Read more.
Busted: After a series of major upsets in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, not a single March Madness bracket remains un-busted, Time magazine reports. The final dagger in the heart of the hopeful was the 16th-seeded University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s shocking win over top-seeded The University of Virginia on Friday. The NCAA announced Sunday that the UMBC win killed the 25 remaining perfect brackets filed online to a variety of platforms. Millions of brackets were submitted online to services, and of the 25 perfect ones left, all had earmarked Virginia as winners in their UMBC game. Read more.
