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Bookkeeping and tax: The numbers, and what they mean

Sales tax in Louisiana is collected locally, and that is what catches people out. The state takes its share and each parish adds its own, split again across the towns inside it. The rate follows the job, not your office.

What Kelsi does

• Explains why the rate here follows the job and not your office, which is the part that catches people
• Works out which jurisdictions you are actually on the hook in
• Talks through the options for getting the books set up, from doing it in Bizer to handing it to a CPA

What Bizer does about it

• Keeps every parish's rates on file, with the jurisdiction and the column you file it under, and the date each was checked
• Tracks the money coming in and going out so the figures are there when you need them
• Flags what is due and when, rather than waiting to be asked

How the work goes

1. Get the accounts connected so the numbers are real
2. Work out which jurisdictions you owe in
3. Charge the right rate on each job
4. File on time, with the figures already gathered

Terrebonne, Lafourche and Assumption — the rates on Kelsi's patch

8 taxing jurisdictions across 3 parishes, each with the column you file it under. Louisiana has 452 across 63.

The rate follows the job, not your office. Every parish in the state.

Talk to Kelsi

Kelsi Guidry is your Bizer advisor in Houma, LA. The first conversation is free. Get in touch.