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.

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Posted by Jabstep

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Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:07 am to Poodlebrain

So both of your instincts say don't pay it and just wait until they're legall required to file sales tax? That is unless the festival has some agreement with the LDR.

That was my initial recommendation.

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Posted by LSUFanHouston

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Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:37 am to Poodlebrain

Poodle, you mean every nontaxable entity that is now subject to sales tax, didn't jump online at 12:01 am on April 1st and apply for a sales tax account????

I'd laugh my rear off if this costs them more money than whatever they can shake down from the vendors.

In other news, I had a discussion with a guy in our office yesterday about what the projected noncompliance rate is going to be with these new sales tax laws. In other words, how many of these entities, especially the nonprofit ones, are going to actually remit sales tax, since the state has no idea who they are, especially the smaller ones? I imagine it's going to be very high.

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