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Hotels & Lodging in Louisiana (2026)

10 rules on the books across Louisiana, 10 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.

Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions

Transient Occupancy Tax

Local hotel and short-term-rental occupancy taxes, who must collect them, remittance schedules, and use of the revenue for tourism, transportation, or housing.

Ascension Parish

Some Restrictions

Ascension Parish levies a 2 percent tax on the rent charged for hotel rooms, motel rooms, and overnight camping…

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Bossier City

Some Restrictions

Bossier City taxes hotel and short-term lodging stays as a 'sale of service' under its general 1% sales and use tax…

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Jefferson Parish

Some Restrictions

Jefferson Parish stacks multiple one-percent hotel occupancy taxes: a parish-wide tax on hotels with ten or more guest…

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Lafayette

Some Restrictions

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government levies a tax of up to 4 percent on hotel and camping-facility rents…

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Lafayette Parish

Some Restrictions

The city-parish consolidated government caps its hotel occupancy tax at 4% of room or campsite rent, applying it…

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Lake Charles

Some Restrictions

Lake Charles requires every short-term rental, a dwelling let for under 30 days but at least one night, to carry an…

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New Orleans

Some Restrictions

New Orleans imposes a hotel occupancy privilege tax on every occupied guest room within the city, collected by the…

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St Tammany Parish

Some Restrictions

St. Tammany Parish levies a 3 percent tax on the rental charged for hotel rooms, motel rooms and overnight camping…

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Tangipahoa Parish

Some Restrictions

Tangipahoa Parish levies a 4 percent occupancy tax on hotel room rentals in the parish, on top of state and local sales…

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Kenner

Light Restrictions

The City of Kenner does not levy a percentage room tax on hotels; instead it charges every hotel, motel, rooming house…

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