2021 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 47 - Revenue and Taxation
§32.1. Individual income tax rate reduction; trigger

RS 32.1 - Individual income tax rate reduction; trigger

A.(1) Beginning April 1, 2024, and each April first through 2034, if the prior fiscal year's actual individual income tax collections as reported in the state's accounting system exceed the actual individual income tax collections for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, as reported in the state's accounting system, adjusted annually by the growth factor provided for in Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the individual income tax rate in R.S. 47:32 for the tax year beginning the following January first shall be reduced as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection.

(2) The reduced rates shall be calculated by multiplying each current rate by the difference between one and the percentage change in individual income tax collections in excess of the individual income tax collections for Fiscal Year 2018-2019 adjusted annually by the growth factor as provided in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection. Rate reductions shall be made only if both of the following conditions are met:

(a) The prior fiscal year's actual total tax, licenses, and fees exceed the actual total tax, licenses, and fees for Fiscal Year 2018-2019, adjusted annually by the growth factor in Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(b) The Budget Stabilization Fund balance as determined by the treasurer is at least two and one-half percent of the total state revenue receipts from the prior fiscal year.

B. When the provisions of this Section require a reduction in the individual income tax rates, the secretary of the Department of Revenue shall publish the reduced rates, and shall include the reduced rates when publishing the tax tables pursuant to R.S. 47:295 and the withholding tables pursuant to R.S. 47:112.

C. The actual individual income tax collections and actual total tax, licenses, and fees used in the calculations required by this Section shall be certified by the office of statewide reporting and accounting policy.

D.(1) "Actual total tax, licenses, and fees" means actual total tax, licenses, and fees as reported to the Revenue Estimating Conference.

(2) "Growth factor provided for in Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana" means the positive growth factor that is the most recent average annual percentage rate of change of personal income for Louisiana as defined and reported by the United States Department of Commerce for the three calendar years prior to the fiscal year in which this calculation is made.

Acts 2021, No. 395, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.