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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1971

  • 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.
  • movable property: means and includes all things other than real estate which have any pecuniary value, all monies, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, franchises, shares in joint stock companies, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1702
  • 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

All the taxes assessed against shares of stock shall be paid by the bank, banking company, firm, association, or corporation engaged in the banking business directly, and it shall be entitled to collect the amount thus paid from the shareholders or their transferees.  The taxes on the shares of stock and real estate owned by any bank, banking company, firm, association, or corporation engaged in the banking business shall be collected in the same manner as the taxes on the other property of a like nature are collected.  In the event any bank, banking company, firm, association, or corporation doing business in this state, chartered under the laws of the United States, this state, any other state, or chartered under the laws of another country is, by decision of the courts, held not to be liable to pay the taxes on the shares of the shareholders, then the taxes shall be collected from and paid by such shareholders, and each shareholder failing to pay the taxes may be proceeded against in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on movable property.

H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994; Acts 2004, No. 396, §1.