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Louisiana Sales Tax - Special Events - Paging Poodlebrain; LSUFanHouston
Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:02 am
Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:02 am
So, I volunteered to help a friends family at a booth at Strawberry festival in Ponchatoula this week. This particular booth is extremely successful and incurs a high volume of transactions over the three day period. A Louisiana Department of Revenue agent, badge and all, made his way around the entire festival presenting those operating a booth with a notice saying the LDR will have a booth and asked the vendors to show up and remit payment for sales tax on Sunday between 10AM - 4PM. I've had little sales tax experience but naturally the person running the booth came to me and asked about it. I told her I had NEVER heard of remitting sales tax a day after the sale had occurred much less advancing sales tax for Sundays sales. Does Poodlebrain or Houston have any experience with this?
I told them to make the revenue agent show them a revised statute stating the timetable for remitting payments in conjunction with a special event. Any advice here? I've sort of struck out with some minor research.
I told them to make the revenue agent show them a revised statute stating the timetable for remitting payments in conjunction with a special event. Any advice here? I've sort of struck out with some minor research.
This post was edited on 4/10/16 at 9:11 am
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Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:14 am to Jabstep
OMG.
This has got to be a direct result of all the crap the legislature passed in the special session.
Have you or the person running the booth discussed this with the festival organizers?
In no way would I write anyone from LDR a check today from 10 am to 4 pm. If you owe money, you can pay it next month.
EDIT: What I mean to say is that I believe someone will owe sales tax on these booth sales, as all the various exemptions for festivals have been eliminated. But I think this is something the festival itself should be involved in or at least aware of. I'm guessing there is some sort of contract between the booth and the festival and that contract may stipulate who is responsible for what. It may even be that the booth is not even technically the seller, it may just be selling on behalf of the festival.
All this is meant to say, it's complex, you need to discuss it with the festival (along with all the other vendors) and you definitely do not need to, or should, give LDR anything today.
EDIT 2: Sales tax reports and payments are due to the state the 20th of the following month. There is no special rule for festivals or anything like that. The LDR person may be telling people he'll accept their money now "as a convenience" so you don't have to worry about doing after the fact.
I sure hope this is a rouge who thinks if he can show up Monday morning with some checks that he'll get thanks from his superiors, and not an official LDR decision to go shake down and scare vendors to get money today because the state is in such poor cash flow situation.
This has got to be a direct result of all the crap the legislature passed in the special session.
Have you or the person running the booth discussed this with the festival organizers?
In no way would I write anyone from LDR a check today from 10 am to 4 pm. If you owe money, you can pay it next month.
EDIT: What I mean to say is that I believe someone will owe sales tax on these booth sales, as all the various exemptions for festivals have been eliminated. But I think this is something the festival itself should be involved in or at least aware of. I'm guessing there is some sort of contract between the booth and the festival and that contract may stipulate who is responsible for what. It may even be that the booth is not even technically the seller, it may just be selling on behalf of the festival.
All this is meant to say, it's complex, you need to discuss it with the festival (along with all the other vendors) and you definitely do not need to, or should, give LDR anything today.
EDIT 2: Sales tax reports and payments are due to the state the 20th of the following month. There is no special rule for festivals or anything like that. The LDR person may be telling people he'll accept their money now "as a convenience" so you don't have to worry about doing after the fact.
I sure hope this is a rouge who thinks if he can show up Monday morning with some checks that he'll get thanks from his superiors, and not an official LDR decision to go shake down and scare vendors to get money today because the state is in such poor cash flow situation.
This post was edited on 4/10/16 at 9:32 am
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:30 am to Jabstep
Typical Louisiana cluster frick. Why would a vendor at a festival who was exempt from sales tax under prior law have a sales tax account with the LDR? Have you applied for a sales tax account since the laws were changed effective April 1, 2016? How would you have any confidence that deposits/payments would be properly credited to a non-existent account?
This is an attempt to grab as much cash as possible as fast as possible by the state. I wonder how much the state collected versus how much it spent since the spending will include overtime pay for the agents who worked weekends.
This is an attempt to grab as much cash as possible as fast as possible by the state. I wonder how much the state collected versus how much it spent since the spending will include overtime pay for the agents who worked weekends.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 4:42 pm to Jabstep
I do a lot of festivals and have never seen this myself. I usually take our sales and ring it in through our computer at work. Sales tax gets taken care of that way for us at least.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 5:29 pm to Jabstep
Funny that the state is demanding money instantly while I've been waiting for them to pay me for months...
Posted on 4/11/16 at 3:35 pm to Jabstep
Daily collections have been occurring at Jazz Fest for several years.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 9:08 pm to Jabstep
Yep our festival recieved notice that we out tax exempt status has been suspended basically and we must now pay sales taxes for this year's event.
Supposedly it's only temporary but I'll believe it when I see it
Supposedly it's only temporary but I'll believe it when I see it
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