Louisiana’s only sales tax holiday celebrates Second Amendment and gun ownership this weekend with a tax break for consumers and a sales spike for retailers.
Other sales tax holiday suspensions like back to school and hurricane preparedness remain in place until 2025, when all of the exemptions will be reconsidered. Louisiana faces a $300 million budget deficit in 2025.
Republican West Monroe Sen. Stewart Cathey was able to lift the suspension on the Second Amendment holiday in 2023 with Senate Bill 56.
The Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday suspends both local and state taxes for firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies Friday, Sept. 6, Saturday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 8.
Cathey’s law exempts sales tax on everything from guns to archery equipment to apparel to firearms to deer corn. The exemptions don’t include off-road vehicles, ATVs and boats.
Most consumers can save 10% or more on state and local sales taxes during the holiday.
“The feedback I’ve gotten from retailers and consumers has been nothing but positive,” Cathey told USA Today Network Thursday. “Jeff Simmons (owners of Simmons Sporting Goods in Batrop) told me he had people come all the way from Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas during last year’s Second Amendment holiday.”