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Together Louisiana, state’s assessors team up to defeat major corporate tax-giveaway scheme

Source: weeklycitizen.com/news/20170604/together-louisiana-states-assessors-team-up-to-defeat-major-corporate-tax-giveaway-scheme - Jun 5, 2017

At a Senate committee hearing last week, Together Louisiana and the state’s assessors teamed up to deal an unlikely defeat to a proposed constitutional amendment backed by one of the most well-funded lobbying drives of the current legislative session.

House Bill 444 would have opened the door to a major new category of corporate tax exemption and had the backing, not only of the major players in the corporate subsidy lobby, but also of most of the state’s associations representing local officials and even of the Governor, who was working actively to support the bill.

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