Hunters in Louisiana get a tax break today through the weekend. It's the inaugural Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday.
The three-day tax-free shopping program focuses on firearms, ammunition and other outdoors equipment.
All those items are free of both state and local sales taxes. It's a first-of-its-kind event.
"The state's never done anything like this where it's both state- and parish-tax exempt, so the savings for the consumer is fantastic," says Paul Claxton, at Cabela's Sporting Goods in Gonzales.
Listen to Don Ames conversation with Claxton:
It covers just about everything a hunter could want, and that includes ammo, which Alan Earnest, manager of the Bass Pro shop in Denham Springs, says is no longer in short supply.
"The manufacturers have been behind for a long time, but they seem to be catching up and staying on top of the business now," says Earnest. "In the last couple of months it's gotten a lot better. We're in a better position right now than we have been for almost a year," he says.
Listen to Don Ames' conversation with Earnest:
He'd better be. Customers have been checking out his inventory in advance of the sales tax holiday...setting their sights on items they'll target to take outdoors.
"We've had tons of calls inquiring what, specifically, the tax free weekend applies to," says Earnest.
Besides guns and ammo, local and state taxes will also be waived on clothes, shoes, bags, off-road vehicles, airboats, knives, decoys, duck blinds and other equipment...all just in time for dove season.
And customers don't have to take possession of their purchases right away. The tax amnesty also applies to layaway items.
Listen to Livonia Senator Robert Marionneaux, Jr., author of Act 453, establishing the sales tax holiday:
For more information, click on the following link:
http://revenue.louisiana.gov/sections/publications/viewrelease.aspx?id=266
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