tax deadline

Five Louisiana Parishes will have until August to file state taxes. For the rest of us, today is the day we need to get that done.

A computer connectivity issue at the Louisiana Department of Revenue yesterday was the reason given for the extension.

If you owe the federal government tax money, and have not yet managed to transfer those funds from your bank account to Uncle Sam's, your reasons for failing to pay up could vary as widely as "I think perhaps our elected officials are too stupid to have control of this money, and so I will refrain from making it available to them at this moment.", t...