Allain: Revenue Department may be in for funding change

State Sen. Bret Allain hopes to make Louisiana taxation more fair by changing the way the state’s largest taxing agency is funded. And he believes rules governing sales tax collections from internet sales needed to be made more clear. Allain, R-Franklin, spoke Monday at a meeting of the St. Mary Industrial Group at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. Allain was a candidate for Senate president after last year’s elections gave Republicans a super-majority in that chamber. Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, won that battle, and Allain wound up with the chairmanship of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee, the jurisdiction of which includes ...

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