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Louisiana’s online shoppers are required to pay sales taxes

Source: louisianaweekly.com - Apr 25, 2018

To get a jump on summer, you may have gone online and bought a sundress or sports gear from an out- of-state retailer. Louisiana levies a consumer use tax on those purchases. Some large retailers collect it at the time of sale. Smaller, out-of-state vendors with no physical presence in the Pelican State seldom do. But buyers are required to pay these taxes to the state.

Under Louisiana law, if an online seller doesn’t have a presence or “nexus” in the state and doesn’t collect sales taxes, the buyer has to pay a consumer use tax, according to Byron Henderson, spokesman for Louisiana’s Department of Revenue. This tax applies to transactions that escaped sales taxes at the time of purchase. For items bought since April 1, 2016, the tax is nine percent — five percent for the state and four percent for local jurisdictions.

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