For Immediate Release, Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Media Contact:  Suzanne Parsons Stymiest @ 985-898-5243
 

STATE REVENUE DEPARTMENT OPENS FIELD OFFICE
 

             The Louisiana Department of Revenue has opened a field office in St. Tammany Parish to accept requests for sales tax refunds.

             Residents living in parishes where disaster relief funds have been made available by the federal government may be eligible for a refund of state sales taxes paid on uninsured personal property destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

             Criteria for seeking a refund require that the destroyed property was not reimbursable by insurance; that the loss was to a person, not a business or corporation; that the destroyed property must have been moveable, such as clothing, furniture or appliances; and that state sales taxes were paid at the time of purchase.

             Forms required for the application can be acquired at www.revenue.louisiana.gov. For more information, contact the LDR field office at 985-893-6277. The office is located on North Florida Street in Covington near the National Guard Armory, and is open Monday through Friday.

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