Mandie Landry and Rep. Matthew Willard — and by Jan Moller, director of Invest in Louisiana, a Baton Rouge nonprofit that favors a progressive tax system. They worry that the net effect of the changes would be budget deficits. Landry’s plan would make ...

Louisiana lawmakers have advanced bills to flatten the state's income tax rate and repeal the corporate franchise tax in a special legislative session focused on passing Gov.

Although Gov. Jeff Landry’s major tax overhaul would do away with many of the state’s tax breaks in exchange for lower income tax rates, Louisiana’s most lucrative corporate subsidy — its Industrial Tax Exemption Program — would remain in place,

The House Ways and Means Committee took steps Sunday toward achieving the governor’s tax overhaul by advancing a bill to cut the corporate income tax rate, now one of the highest in the nation, in stages from 7.