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This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
For businesses, the corporate income tax rate will drop from 7.5% to a flat 5.5%, and the state franchise tax will be eliminated entirely. Originally, Landry's plan proposed a rate of 3.5%.
Louisiana taxpayers will have to wait at least another year before lawmakers consider eliminating the state's $4.5 billion income tax again. Republican Columbia state Rep. Neil Riser's House Bill ...
Louisiana lawmakers began debating bills Thursday that would revamp the state's tax code by lowering income taxes for all workers while adding sales taxes to services not currently taxed and ...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code section 7201, provides: Sec. 7201. Attempt to evade or defeat tax Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000 ($500,000 ...
Mueller v. Allen, 463 U.S. 388 (1983), was a United States Supreme Court case examining the constitutionality of a state tax deduction granted to taxpaying parents for school-related expenses, including expenses incurred from private secular and religious schools.
[18] [19] The Revenue Act included a deduction for state and local taxes, as well as national taxes. [17] [20] This Civil War-era income tax was repealed in 1871. A federal income tax was again introduced in 1894, and again included deductions for state and local taxes, [19] but in 1895 the Supreme Court ruled the income tax unconstitutional in ...
Louisiana Revenue Secretary Richard Nelson said Republican Gov. Jeff Landry wants to set the stage beginning in 2025 for eventually eliminating the state's income tax, but it won't happen in one ...