Baton Rouge short-term rental guests pay Louisiana state accommodations sales tax (5%), local sales tax, and hotel/motel occupancy tax. Visit Baton Rouge levies a 4% occupancy tax plus, in most of the parish, an additional 2%, under La. R.S. 33:4574.1.1.
Louisiana taxes hotel and short-term rental stays. The state accommodations sales tax is 5% (effective Jan. 1, 2025). On top of that, local sales tax and a hotel/motel occupancy tax apply. Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4574.1.1 authorizes Visit Baton Rouge (the parish tourism commission) to levy a 4% occupancy tax on paid hotel/rental occupancy, plus an additional 2% on rooms located in East Baton Rouge Parish outside the cities of Baker, Central, and Zachary. The non-permit registration fee is $0; the non-owner-occupied permit costs $100.
Failure to collect or remit required taxes is enforced by the City-Parish Revenue Collection Division; unpaid taxes accrue penalties and interest.
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East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
East Baton Rouge Parish actively encourages backyard composting and offers discounted compost bins. Yard debris is also collected curbside: leaves and grass ...
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
East Baton Rouge Parish has no ordinance banning or specifically regulating residential artificial turf. Synthetic grass is generally allowed on private prop...
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
There is no rule forcing homeowners to plant native species, but the UDC uses native trees in its standards: mitigation for removed significant trees on larg...
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
East Baton Rouge Parish has no ordinance regulating residential rain barrels or rainwater collection, and Louisiana places no statewide ban on harvesting rai...
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
East Baton Rouge Parish sets no routine odd/even lawn-watering restriction. Water comes from the deep Southern Hills Aquifer via the private Baton Rouge Wate...
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
Overgrown weeds and brush are a nuisance in East Baton Rouge Parish. Sec. 12:351 caps grass and weeds at twelve inches, and City-Parish material treats weeds...
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