RAPIDES PARISH & APPLICABLE MUNICIPALITIES OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAX REPORT 5606 Coliseum Blvd * Alexandria, Louisiana * 71303 Phone (318) 445-0296 * Fax (318) 449-4532 Email: info@rpst.org * www.laota.com Occupational License Tax Renewal Form Business Ceased Operation in January or February of this Year Please check & correct if any information has changed Account Number: Complete only ONE of the following 1.All businesses except those listed in 2,3 or 4 3.Hotel, Motel, Tourist Court or Rooming House a. Class of license – Table (see tax tables) a. Class of license – R.S. 47:359(I) & 47:346 b. Number of days in operation b. Number of days in operation c. Gross sales or receipts $ c. Sleeping rooms X $2.00 per room $ d. Deductions $ d. Other gross sales or receipts (except sleeping rooms, Describe i.e., restaurants, lounges, gift shops, etc.) $ e. Taxable gross (c) minus (d) $ e. Deductions $ f. Divided by 365 $ Describe g. Multiplied by number of days in operation $ f. Taxable gross (d) minus (e) $ h. License fee due on (g) (from Tax Tables) $ g. Divided by 365 $ h. Multiplied by number of days in operation $ 2.Retail Dealers of Gasoline & Motor Fuel i. License fee due on (h) from Table 1 $ a. Class of license – R.S. 47:354 & 47:354.1 j. Total license fee due (c) plus (i) $ b. Number of days in operation c. Gallons of gasoline & motor fuels sold 4.Nursing Home d. Divided by 365 a. Class of license – R.S. 47:359(I) e. Multiplied by number of days in operation b. Number of days in operation f. License fee due on (e) from Table 1.1 $ c. Sleeping rooms X $2.00 per room $ g. Gross sales or receipts (other than gas/motor fuel) $ d. Gross sales or receipts $ h. Deductions $ e. Taxable gross receipts (d) multiplied by 1/3 $ Describe Divided by 365 $ i. Taxable gross (g) minus (h) $ f. Multiplied by number of days in operation $ j. Divided by 365 $ g. License fee due on (f) from Table 1 $ k. Multiplied by number of days in operation $ h. Total license fee due (c) plus (g) $ l. License fee due on (k) from Table I $ m. Total license fee (f) plus (l) $ n. Maximum license fee due $ 6,200.00 o. Enter the lesser of (m) or (n) $ 1.License fee due from (1)(h); (2)(o); (3)(j); or (4)(h) $ 2.Penalty – 5% for each 30 days or fraction thereof computed from Mar 1 st(25% max) $ 3.Interest – Alexandria only – 12%; All other jurisdictions – 15% per annum computed from March 1st $ 4.Total Due (1)+(2)+(3) $ This is to affirm that the statements made herein are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Signature of Owner or Authorized Agent Date |
DEFINITIONS 1. Gross sales or receipts (NOTGROSSPROFIT) includeall monies received without deduction for expenses. 2. Business includes any business, trade, profession, occupation, vocation or calling. 3. Contractor is synonymous with the term “builder.” 4. Contractor’s gross receipts are based on the actual amount of the contract (lump sum contract) or the actual cost of the contract plus any additional fee charged to the owner (cost plus contract). 5. Fixed location means any permanent structure used to provide goods or services to consumers. 6. Gross commissions for travelagencies are based on fees earned on the sales of tickets and shall not include ticket prices. 7. Gross income for real estate brokers are defined as those fees from any source deposited into the broker’s general fund, less escrow deposits and fees paid to cooperating real estate brokers. 8. Peddler means any person who goes from house to house or place to place or store to store exposing and selling merchandise which he carries with him. It includes but is not limited to hawkers, itinerant vendors and any retail dealer not having a fixed place of business. 9. Person includes an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity. 10. Separate location exists unless a similar or associated type of business is operated as a unit under a single roof or on the same contiguous tract of land. 11. Wholesale dealer means any person who sells to other dealers who in turn resell. DEDUCTIONS 1. Petroleum taxes as defined in R.S. 47:361(A) (For Bulk or Distributing Plants only) 2. For undertaking and funeral directing refer to R.S. 47:361(B) 3. For applicable deductions in the brokerage of stocks and bonds see R.S.47:361(C) 4. Retail sales of motor vehicles and boats with gross receipts exceeding $700,000 refer to R.S. 47:361(D) MINIMUM & MAXIMUM LICENSE FEES 1. Real Estate Brokers - $2,200 maximum R.S. 47:342(7) 2. Pawnbrokers - Basis shall include total loans plus retail sales with a minimum license of $300 R.S. 47:354(D)(1) 3. Dealers in mobile home sales, rentals or mobile home repairs - $800 maximum R.S. 47:354(D)(4) 4. Retail dealers of building materials - $6,200 maximum R.S. 47:355(B)(2) 5. For business dealing in or buying and selling stocks or bonds , the license fee shall be based on gross annual profits; however where no gross annual profit is realized, the minimum tax under Table 4 shall be paid - $50 minimum R.S. 47:357(C) 6. Peddlers and itinerant vendors - $200 maximum R.S. 47:359(C) 7. Itinerant vendors of agricultural products purchased directly from farmers or an itinerant vendor of seafood products - $100 maximum R.S. 47:359(C) 8. All other businesses and professionals - $50 minimum; $2,000 maximum R.S. 47:359(J) 9. Retail or wholesale sales of motor vehicles and boats - $700,000 maximum gross receipts R.S. 47:361(D) 10. Contractors - $750 maximum R.S. 47:362(A); Only one license required in the state – based on contractor’s domicile 11. Pharmacies that derive eighty percent (80%) or more of their gross receipts from the sale of prescription drugs, the license fee shall be one-tenth of one percent of the gross receipts with a maximum of $2000 12. Retail dealers in gasoline & motor fuels, the license fee shall be computed based on the gallons of fuel sold utilizing the table in R.S. 47:354.1 plus the fee on the amount of gross sales of merchandise, services and rentals using the table in R.S. 47:354. The maximum of the two fees shall not exceed $6,200 EXEMPTIONS 1. Blind persons and their widows and orphans R.S. 47:360(A) 2. Louisiana artists and craftsmen who display at functions sponsored by nonprofit organizations R.S. 47:360(B) 3. Nonprofitorganizations – exempt from occupational license only; not sales & use tax R.S. 47:360(C) 4. Wholesale dealers in certain alcoholic beverages R.S. 47:360(D) 5. Other exempted businesses – Banks, building and loan associations, editors, broadcasters, publishers, ministers, school teachers, nurses, farmers, sawmill operators and farmer-owned farm loan companies R.S. 47:360 (E) 6. Manufacturers, however retail sales by manufacturers shall be subject to payment of a license tax R.S. 47:360(F) 7. Disabled persons that are home-bound, confined to a bed or wheelchair and require aid of another person R.S. 47:360(G) |
TAX TABLES Table 1 R.S. 47:354 Table 1.1 R.S. 47:354.1 Retail Dealer Gasoline & Motor Fuel Retailers Gross Sales But License Gallons Sold But License At Least Less Than Shall Be At Least Less Than Shall Be $ 0 $ 50,000 $ 50 0 55,000 $ 50 50,000 75,000 60 55,000 85,000 60 75,000 100,000 90 85,000 110,000 90 100,000 150,000 120 110,000 165,000 120 150,000 200,000 180 165,000 225,000 180 200,000 250,000 250 225,000 275,000 250 250,000 300,000 300 275,000 325,000 300 300,000 400,000 360 325,000 450,000 360 400,000 500,000 500 450,000 550,000 500 500,000 600,000 650 550,000 650,000 650 600,000 750,000 800 650,000 825,000 800 750,000 1,000,000 900 825,000 1,000,000 900 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,200 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,200 1,500,000 2,000,000 1,800 1,500,000 2,000,000 1,800 2,000,000 2,500,000 2,400 2,000,000 2,500,000 2,400 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 3,600 3,000,000 3,500,000 3,600 3,500,000 4,000,000 4,200 3,500,000 4,000,000 4,200 4,000,000 4,500,000 4,800 4,000,000 4,500,000 4,800 4,500,000 5,000,000 5,400 4,500,000 5,000,000 5,400 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000 5,500,000 6,200 5,500,000 6,200 Table 3 R.S. 47:356 Lending Business Loans Made But License At Least Less Than Shall Be $ 0 $ 250,000 $ 50 Table 2 R.S. 47:355 250,000 500,000 100 Wholesale Dealer 500,000 750,000 150 Gross Sales But License 750,000 1,000,000 200 At Least Less Than Shall Be 1,000,000 1,250,000 250 $ 0 $ 100,000 $ 50 1,250,000 1,500,000 300 100,000 150,000 75 1,500,000 1,750,000 350 150,000 250,000 100 1,750,000 2,000,000 400 250,000 500,000 150 2,000,000 2,250,000 450 500,000 600,000 200 2,250,000 2,500,000 500 600,000 800,000 250 2,500,000 3,000,000 550 800,000 1,000,000 300 3,000,000 3,500,000 600 1,000,000 1,500,000 400 5,500,000 4,000,000 650 1,500,000 2,000,000 500 4,000,000 4,500,000 700 2,000,000 2,500,000 700 4,500,000 5,000,000 750 2,500,000 3,000,000 900 5,000,000 5,500,000 800 3,000,000 4,000,000 1,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 850 4,000,000 5,000,000 1,250 6,000,000 6,500,000 900 6,500,000 7,000,000 950 5,000,000 5,500,000 1,800 7,000,000 7,500,000 1,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 2,400 7,500,000 8,000,000 1,050 6,000,000 6,500,000 3,000 8,000,000 8,500,000 1,100 6,500,000 7,000,000 3,600 8,500,000 9,000,000 1,150 7,000,000 7,500,000 4,200 9,000,000 9,500,000 1,200 7,500,000 8,000,000 4,800 9,500,000 10,000,000 1,250 8,000,000 9,000,000 5,200 10,000,000 11,000,000 1,350 9,000,000 10,000,000 5,600 11,000,000 12,000,000 1,450 10,000,000 11,000,000 6,000 12,000,000 13,000,000 1,550 11,000,000 12,000,000 6,400 13,000,000 14,000,000 1,650 12,000,000 13,000,000 6,800 14,000,000 15,000,000 1,750 13,000,000 14,000,000 7,200 15,000,000 16,000,000 1,850 14,000,000 7,500 16,000,000 17,000,000 1,950 17,000,000 18,000,000 2,050 18,000,000 19,000,000 2,150 19,000,000 20,000,000 2,250 20,000,000 25,000,000 2,500 25,000,000 30,000,000 3,000 30,000,000 35,000,000 3,500 35,000,000 3,700 |
Table 6 R.S. 47:359 Table 4 R.S. 47:357 Flat Fees Brokerage and Commission Agents 1. R.S. 47:359(A) Private Investment Agency - Gross Commissions But License $500 At Least Less Than Shall Be 2. R.S. 47:359(C) Peddlers and Itinerant $ 0 $ 15,000 $ 50 15,000 20,000 70 Vendors - $200 (Alexandria & Ball); $100 (All 20,000 25,000 90 Other Areas) 25,000 30,000 112 3. R.S.47:359(D) Amusement Machines - $50 30,000 40,000 137 for electronic pinball, flipper machine or video 40,000 50,000 180 50,000 65,000 225 game; $20 for all other coin-operated 65,000 80,000 300 or electronic devices (Uses a separate 80,000 100,000 360 reporting form) 100,000 125,000 450 4. R.S. 47:359(G) Professional Sports - $1,000 125,000 150,000 600 5. R.S. 47:359(H)Circuses, Concerts, Carnivals 150,000 175,000 675 175,000 200,000 750 & Special Events - $250 200,000 250,000 900 6. R.S. 47:359(I) & 47:346 Hotel/Motel - $2.00 250,000 300,000 1,050 per room plus fee on all other gross receipts 300,000 350,000 1,200 except sleeping rooms from Table 1 350,000 400,000 1,400 400,000 450,000 1,600 7. R.S. 47:359(I) & 47:354 Nursing Home - 450,000 500,000 1,800 $2.00 per room plus fee on 1/3 of gross receipts 500,000 550,000 2,000 8. R.S. 47:359(J) All Other Businesses & 550,000 600,000 2,200 Professionals - including but not limited to, 600,000 650,000 2,400 printers, lithographers, attorneys-at-law; 650,000 700,000 2,600 700,000 750,000 2,800 accountants, broadcasters, oculists, physicians, 750,000 800,000 3,000 osteopaths, dentists, chiropodists, 800,000 850,000 3,200 bacteriologist, veterinarians, chemists, 850,000 900,000 3,400 architects, and civil, mechanical, chemical or 900,000 950,000 3,600 950,000 3,700 electrical engineers, & pharmacies that derive 80% of gross receipts from the sale of prescription drugs; 0.1% of Gross Receipts; $50 Minimum; $2,000 Maximum Table 5 R.S. 47:358 Public Utilities Gross Receipts But License At Least Less Than Shall Be $ 0 $ 20,000 $ 50 20,000 25,000 60 25,000 37,500 75 37,500 50,000 115 50,000 75,000 150 75,000 100,000 200 100,000 150,000 300 150,000 200,000 450 200,000 250,000 650 250,000 500,000 750 500,000 750,000 1,500 750,000 1,000,000 2,250 1,000,000 1,250,000 3,000 1,250,000 1,500,000 3,750 1,500,000 1,750,000 4,500 1,750,000 2,000,000 5,250 2,000,000 2,250,000 6,000 2,250,000 2,500,000 6,900 2,500,000 7,500 |