The Bureau of Revenue - Sales Tax provides a number of services for businesses and citizens in New Orleans. These include:

• Administer and enforce ordinances pertaining to collection of sales, hotel-motel, parking and various other taxes in accordance with the Code of the City of New Orleans
• Provide businesses the ability to obtain necessary permits and licenses to operate a business in the City of New Orleans, including bed and breakfast establishments, Mardi Gras and mobile vendors, and entertainers and artists operating in Jackson Square and Pirates Alley.
• Issue Resale Certificates to allow businesses to purchase items without paying sales tax, if items will be resold in the normal course of operating business.