Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1953 – Assessment of corporations generally
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1953
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- 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.
- 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
Corporations, save those otherwise provided for, shall be assessed directly upon all taxable property owned by such corporations, but unless six months prior and continuous ownership can be shown in any holdings of national, state or municipal bonds or stocks in any corporations whatsoever, then the market value of such holdings shall be assessed to such corporations as so much “money in possession.”
Such corporations shall be required to furnish to the assessor within the first twenty days of January of each year, a sworn statement of the cost of their property, real and personal, and the value at which it is carried on the books, and in determining the assessment these valuations shall be considered; such corporations further shall be required to furnish a sworn statement of the earning capacity of the corporation, which earning capacity shall form a basis of estimating the value of its charter or franchise.
Any president or other officer who fails to make a sworn return of property and condition to the assessor within the first twenty days of January of each year, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.
H.C.R. No. 94, 1992 R.S., eff. June 16, 1992; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.