Minnesota has quietly rewritten the rules — without ever publicly vetting the changes in the House or Senate tax committees. Language that undermines the taxpayer-friendly Dakota Drug win at the Minnesota Supreme Court was never publicly vetted in the tax committees.
That decision had shielded wholesalers from MinnesotaCare Tax on rebate amounts, recognizing those dollars
The hotly contested new Commercial Activity Tax (“CAT”) proposal in Louisiana – H.B. 628 – may now have officially run out of lives.
After hours of debate over two days of hearings in the Louisiana House Ways & Means Committee, Governor Edwards’ (D) proposed CAT was voluntarily deferred by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Sam
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards’ (D) administration has now filed its bill proposing to create a new Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) in Louisiana.
A full copy of the filed original bill, HB 628 (authored by Representative Sam Jones), can be found here.
According to the Governor’s previously released 2017 Budget Stabilization Plan, the