Author Archives: Jeff Palermo
Tax expert cautions against utilizing the President's payroll tax deferral offer
President Trump signed an executive order over the weekend deferring payroll tax collection for employees through the end of the year. Postlethwaite and Netterville Associate Tax Director Kathryn Pitt...
Aug 10, 2020 Pictures of Money / CC
USDA to buy 30 million dollars of Gulf shrimp
The USDA announces it will buy 30 million dollars' worth of Gulf of Mexico shrimp to help stabilize the market and avoid a total price collapse due to excess product. Louisiana Shrimp Association Pres...
Aug 10, 2020 Jeremy Keith / CC
The state’s legislative auditor debunks the claims of duplicate COVID-19 cases inflating the state’s reported case count
The state's legislative auditor debunks the claims of duplicate COVID-19 cases that have led some to believe the coronavirus outbreak data is being presented in a manner to be more alarming than it is...
Aug 10, 2020
Family of Deputy Nick Tullier make surprise announcement
Over the weekend the father of East Baton Parish Sheriff's Deputy Nick Tullier, the deputy who was severely injured in July of 2016 during a police ambush, made a surprise video announcement about his...
Aug 10, 2020
Man dead after being shot at a party of 300-400 people in Lincoln Parish
A 24-year-old Lincoln Parish man is dead after being shot at a party of three to four hundred people. Lincoln Parish Sheriff Sgt. Matthew Henderson says deputies were responding to break up the event ...
Aug 10, 2020
Reports indicate college falls sports in serious jeopardy of being pushed to the spring
Reports indicate college sports officials are likely to soon pull the plug on fall sports seasons and plan to push those sports into spring. It was only three days ago that LSU announced the two addit...
Aug 09, 2020
An estimated 200 bars have made the switch to restaurants since April
The Louisiana Restaurant Association estimates about 200 Louisiana bars have applied for and received restaurant conditional licenses so they can open back up. LRA President Stan Harris says only bars...
Aug 09, 2020
More than half of Louisiana households were not financially prepared for economic crisis of pandemic
Before the pandemic, more than one in three Louisiana working households were financially vulnerable and classified as ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. A new report from the Louisia...
Aug 09, 2020
69,000 Louisianans receive $250 front line worker tax rebates
69,000 250 dollar frontline worker tax rebates have been sent out so far, good for 17 million dollars distributed from the 50 million dollar fund for the program. Louisiana Revenue Secretary Kimberly ...
Aug 09, 2020 Pictures of Money / CC
ULM and La Tech football to meet November 21st in Shreveport
For the first time since 2000 ULM and LA Tech football will play after the two teams agree to a November 21st contest at Independence Stadium in Shreveport. The game comes as both teams were scramblin...
Aug 07, 2020
