Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1401

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

            In order to provide effect to the provisions of Article V, Section 35 and La. Const. Art. VII, § 3(A) , a board that will hear and decide, at a minimum of expense to the taxpayer, questions of law and fact arising from disputes or controversies between a taxpayer and any collector of the state of Louisiana or its political subdivisions in the enforcement of any tax, excise, license, permit or any other tax, fee, penalty, receipt or other law administered by a collector, and to exercise other jurisdiction as provided by law, including jurisdiction as provided for in the Uniform Local Sales Tax Code, the Board of Tax Appeals, hereinafter referred to as the “board”, is created as an independent agency for the purposes of this Chapter. The Local Tax Division is created as an independent agency and authority within the board for the purposes of exercising jurisdiction over disputes involving local collectors.

            Acts 2014, No. 640, §2, eff. June 12, 2014; Acts 2015, No. 210, §1, eff. June 23, 2015; Acts 2018, No. 143, §1, eff. May 11, 2018; Acts 2020, No. 278, §1, eff. July 1, 2020.

NOTE: See Acts 2015, No. 210, §4, re: retroactivity of certain provisions.

NOTE: See Acts 2014, No. 198 and Acts 2016, No. 335, §2