Vendors in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana will “…begin collecting a new half-cent sales tax that voters approved Saturday.” The half-cent increase “….raises the School Board’s total sales tax levy to 3 percent.”
The previous two years have seen a few sales tax increases to support education. In 2010, “…voters approved a new…half-cent sales tax dedicated, in part, to technology improvements and paying for state-mandated foreign language instruction in elementary schools.”
A loss in state funds has been seen due to declining enrollments, “…apparently because of economic and other external factors.” The additional revenues are not only needed to substitute for the loss, and also provide for unfunded mandates “…such as training during the summer for the transition to a national core curriculum.”
The “…parishwide tax rate will be 9 percent effective July 1.”
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