Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2143

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Owner: means a person who holds an ownership interest that has not been terminated pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2122
  • Property: includes every form, character and kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, tangible and intangible, corporeal and incorporeal, and every share, right, title or interest therein or thereto, and every right, privilege, franchise, patent, copyright, trade-mark, certificate, or other evidence of ownership or interest; bonds, notes, judgments, credits, accounts, or other evidence of indebtedness, and every other thing of value, in possession, on hand, or under the control, at any time during the calendar year for which taxes are levied, within the State of Louisiana, of any person, firm, partnership, association of persons, or corporation, foreign or domestic whether the same be held, possessed, or controlled, as owner, agent, pledgee, mortgagee, or legal representative, or as president, cashier, treasurer, liquidator, assignee, master, superintendent, manager, sequestrator, receiver, trustee, stakeholder, depository, warehouseman, keeper, curator, executor, administrator, legatee, heir, beneficiary, parent, attorney, usufructuary, mandatary, fiduciary, or other capacity, whether the owner be known or unknown; except in the cases of fire, life, or other insurance companies, the notes, judgments, accounts, and credits of nonresident persons, firms, corporations, partnerships, associations, or companies doing business in the State of Louisiana, originating from the business done in this state, are hereby declared to be property with its situs within this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1702

When movable property is moved from the parish or municipal corporation in which it is assessed to any other parish or municipal corporation in this state before the taxes on the property are paid, or moved from a municipality to another part of the same parish, and the taxes are not paid by the owner of the property when due, the tax collector of the parish or municipality in which the property is located, at the request of the tax collector of the parish or municipality from which such property was moved, at the time when the taxes were due, or subsequent thereto, shall enforce the collection of all taxes due on the property by seizure and sale in accordance with law.  When taxes are collected in accordance herewith, the tax collector making the collection shall forward the full amount of taxes collected, including interest and penalties, to the tax collector of the parish or municipal corporation in which the property was assessed, but may retain all amounts collected for costs incurred in making the collection.

Acts 2008, No. 819, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.