Property tax statements for parish and municipal taxes have begun arriving in property owners’ mailboxes recently, both parish and property taxes are due in office the Friday before, December 31, 2023.

The tax statements are prepared and mailed by the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office, as the Sheriff is the ex-officio tax collector for the parish. Tax notices for property owners inside the four towns are mailed by the individual towns. Taxes are based on assessments assigned by the LaSalle Parish Assessor’s office.

LaSalle Assessor Tom Kendrick’s office reports a total assessment of all property value in the parish for tax year 2023 amounts to $170,998,003.00 with $65,969,003.00 being covered by homestead and other exemptions, leaving $105,029,000.00 subject to taxation. The total amount of property taxes due for the year 2023 in LaSalle Parish is $15,264,939.84.

Total assessments in 2022 stood at $180,456,953.00 with $82,728,333.00 being covered by homestead and other exemptions. Total taxes paid last year were $13,827,247.22.

Assessments increased by $7,300,380.00 between 2022 and 2023 and the amount of taxes due increased by $1,437,692.62 between the two years.

The Top ten taxpayers in the parish (listed below) pay a total of $6,426,620.00 of the total taxes collected, or just under one-half of all taxes. The total assessment on these taxpayers for 2023 is $85,446,243.00.

All taxes become delinquent after December 31, 2023, and bear monthly interest of one percent after January 15, 2024. Taxpayers, who mail their tax payments into the Sheriff’s Office for parish taxes or town halls for town taxes, are asked to write their assessment number on their check and include the stub found on the tax notice. Taxpayers have the option of paying their parish taxes online by following the link: www. lasalleso.com/property-taxes.

Top Taxpayers

The top ten taxpayers provide a large portion of tax revenue that help support community services such as schools, hospitals, roads and bridges, public libraries, ambulance service, health unit, courthouse, parish wide police protection, recreation, fire protection, sewerage, etc.

The ten major taxpayers and their assessment and amount of taxes due for 2023 are: 1. ANR Pipeline Company – $10,011,430.00 assessed value, $1,487,680.00 in taxes.

2. C.P.T. Operating Prtnr, L.P. (Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center) – $7,052,660.00 assessed value, $991,745.00 in taxes.

3. LaSalle Bioenergy, LLC (Drax) $35,626,036.00 assessed value, $837,070.00 in taxes.

4. LaSalle Lumber Company – $17,170,370.00 assessed value, $726,358.00 in taxes.

5. Entergy Louisiana, Inc. – $3,832,550.00 assessed value, $577,158.00 in taxes.

6. Garan – $ 2,607,222.00 assessed value, $427,272.00 in taxes.

7. Energy Transfer Crude Oil – $2,427,200.00 assessed value; $365,784.00 in taxes.

8. XTO Energy – $2,355,995.00 assessed value; $358,209.00 in taxes.

9. Texas Gas Transmission Co. – $2,291,270.00 assessed value; $341,635.00 in taxes.

10. Union Pacific Railroad – $2,134,510.00 assessed value, $313,709.00 in taxes.

Readers might note that the assessed values for LaSalle Bioenergy and LaSalle Lumber Company are the highest of all taxpayers listed, although their tax liability is lower than some of the other taxpayers. The reason is that the company has several Industrial Tax Exemption contracts (ITEP) and those contracts require 80% exempt with the other 20% being taxable of their total assessed value. However, companies with ITEP contracts still must pay taxes on items that are not allowed under the ITEP contracts.