Tax Reform

It’s the final day of the legislative session and state lawmakers are expected to pass a tax reform package that will result in lower individual income tax rates, but eliminate the ability to deduct federal income taxes paid.

United States Senator John Kennedy talks about his motion to require all lawmakers to teach public school at least one day a year.

What's really in the tax bill lawmakers are pushing at the Capitol? It depends on who you believe.

Senator John Kennedy talks about tax reform, specifically the bills currently being debated by both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, supports the Senate’s GOP tax plan.

Senator John Kennedy says that the time has come to reform corporate taxes, which he says is leaving billions of dollars overseas and out of the US economy.

Johnson says that he thinks establishment Republicans will, back Trump in this attempt to give stimulate the economy by giving tax breaks to all Americans.

At the beginning of the legislative session today, Governor Bobby Jindal addressed the legislature telling them to scrap his tax reform plan, but asks them for a plan to remove income taxes.

There has been a lot of recent criticism over Governor Bobby Jindal administration's tax reform plan.  And now the administration is defending the plan.