re: Owner of St John restaurant in the French Quarter isn't happy with the state of the city

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I’m fighting this now. The state is collecting a tax debt for 4 years that I was not even residing in the state. I was in the military and 2 of these years I was in Afghanistan which is tax free. They sent all correspondence to the home I had in TN. I live in Louisiana now. It’s absurd the incompetence of this state. I am seriously considering moving again. I’m done with it here.

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Best of luck. I had to be vigilant, write down the name, date and call of anyone I talked to because the amount of times I was told the wrong information, hung up on when transferred, documents lost that I sent (even certified) was absurd.

No one was helpful. There was no single person assigned to the case that could keep track of everything or that I could ask questions to. Just a letter saying I owed $4k and where to send the money…which then started to grow with late fees and eventually sent to collections during the time I was trying to get to the bottom of it and understand what this was and why I owed it.

The best/worst part is in the end those frickers actually owed me like $57 in overpaid taxes so in the end the state lost money over all of this nonsense. But I probably paid $20 in certified letters and over 12 hours on the phone over the course of the year (not to mention having to tell collections agency to F off and they would call weekly)