Tax Rate Change Effective July 1, 2018

IMPORTANT NOTICE

SALES & USE TAX CHANGES FOR THE 
INCORPORATED TOWNS OF GRAMERCY & LUTCHER

EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, JULY 1, 2018

TO ALL DEALERS ENGAGED IN BUSINESS IN ST. JAMES PARISH:

 

IN AN ELECTION HELD MARCH 24, 2018 AND BY ORDINANCES ADOPTED, THE INCORPORATED TOWN OF GRAMERCY WILL LEVY AN ADDITIONAL ONE-HALF PERCENT (.5%) SALES & USE TAX (ORD. 705-18) AND THE TOWN OF LUTCHER WILL LEVY AN ADDITIONAL ONE PERCENT (1%) SALES & USE TAX (ORD. 18-02).

 

Effective July 1, 2018, the Sales & Use Tax Rate on the St. James Parish School Board Sales & Use Tax Return will change to four percent (4%) in Column B for the Incorporated Town of Gramercy and four and one-half percent (4.5%) in Column C for the Incorporated Town of Lutcher.

 

The St. James Parish School Board Sales & Use Tax Department is the central collecting and administering agency for the above taxing bodies as well as the School Board and Parish Council.  The consolidated report form used in remitting the St. James Parish sales and use taxes has three (3) columns:

 

  Area

Tax Report
Columns

St. James Parish

Sales & Use Tax Rate

Effective 7/1/2018

Vendor Comp.

Rate (Line 19)

St James Parish School. Bd. & Council

(Unincorporated St. James Parish)

A

3.50%

1.50%

St James Parish School. Bd. & Council
within corporate limits of the Town of Gramercy

B

4.00%

1.50%

St James Parish School. Bd. & Council
within corporate limits of the Town of Lutcher

C

4.50%

1.50%

 

Please be advised that THE INCORPORATED TOWN OF GRAMERCY DOES NOT INCLUDE the manufacturing industrial plants of Noranda Alumina (Gramercy Holdings I, LLC), Rain CII Carbon, LLC, Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC (LSR) or Imperial Savannah, LP (Louis Dreyfus Commodities). Any purchases by or sales and deliveries to these manufacturers are to be reported in Column A (Unincorporated St. James Parish) at the three and one-half percent (3.5%) tax rate.

 

The St. James Parish School Board Sales & Use Tax Department is also the central collecting and administering agency for the River Parishes Tourist Commission Hotel Motel Occupancy Tax in St. James Parish. The consolidated report form used in remitting the St. James Parish sales, use and occupancy taxes includes the three (3) columns A, B, & C above and column H:

 

  Area

Tax Report
Columns

St. James Parish

Occupancy Tax Rate

Effective 1/1/2021

River Parishes Tourist Commission

(Hotel Motel Occupancy Tax Only)

H

4.00%

 

Any questions concerning the tax rates and / or additional tax levies should be directed to the St. James Parish School Board Sales & Use Tax Department at
(225) 258-4500, extension 4551 or by email to
salestax@sjpsb.org.