Our Services
Advantous uniquely provides customizable end-to-end solutions that range from turnkey compliance services to high-level planning and advisory consulting. Our team of professionals bring cross-industry depth and experience, resources, and the technical expertise to protect and enhance your bottom line.
Business Incentives
We assist companies with identifying, negotiating, and complying with various federal, state, and local incentive programs available. Whether a job creation programs, property tax abatement, cooperative endeavor agreements, or many others across various states, our experience in delivering bottom-line benefits is unmatched.
Sales & Use Tax
As a premier sales and use tax consulting firm, we are focused on helping companies navigate unique and complex sales and use tax environments. Our talented team of professionals puts our extensive knowledge to work to handle all sales and use tax issues, including reverse audits, audit defense, and multi-state appeals and disputes
Property Tax
Our property tax experts have over three decades of experience in assisting clients with a wide variety of property tax matters. In the ever-changing business environment, our team works with state and local officials to help our clients negotiate equitable, fair assessments and valuations.
Income & Franchise Tax
Companies must navigate through a complex state and local tax landscape. Aggressive tax enforcement as well as tax laws and policies that are sometimes “fluid” in nature present challenges to businesses in a wide array of industries consistently achieving and maintaining income tax compliance.
Additional Services
Our services extend well beyond those listed here. We also utilize key relationships at the federal, state, and local levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry.
Appeals & Disputes
Advantous’ team of tax professionals have secured advantageous results for our clients before an array of taxing authorities and administrative bodies. As Advantous advises clients from a wide variety of industries and in all aspects of tax compliance and planning, we are a market leader in handling formal appeals and disputes of all tax types.
Government Relations
We utilize relationships at all levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry. While we aren’t a lobbying firm, our relationships with elected officials on tax matters are unique. We help companies obtain local incentives, and we serve as thought leaders on nearly all tax matters.
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Louisiana Legislative Session Update
Only 21 days left until Louisiana’s 2025 Regular Legislative Session adjourns. Here is an update on what happened this week at the legislature:
All 5 constitutional amendments related to the former CA 2 have made it to the Senate. Here are their current statuses:
HB 366 by Representative Deshotel – authorizes parishes to exempt business inventory and to reduce percentage of fair market value applicable to business inventory – is pending Senate final passage scheduled for 5/27.
HB 678 (formerly HB 472) by Representative Emerson – merges the Revenue Stabilization Fund and its dedications into the Budget Stabilization Fund – is pending Senate Finance.
HB 294 by Representative Bagley – removes cap on severance tax to be remitted to parishes– is pending Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
HB 473 by Representative Emerson – repeals certain trust funds to make payment to Teachers’ Retirement System – is pending Senate Finance.
HB 295 by Representative Tarver – requires calculation and adoption of Government Growth Limit on recurring expenses – is pending Senate Finance.
Advantous’ 2025 SALT Summit
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Credits & Incentives Trends
In December 2024, Louisiana Economic Development announced that Meta has selected Northeast Louisiana as the site for a $10B AI-Optimization Center. The race is on for data centers and AI facilities for local jurisdictions and states to compete for such new and exciting projects. In Louisiana, the legislature enacted a new data center sales and use tax exemption. In other states, similar benefits have been provided along with ad valorem tax reductions in local jurisdictions. Congrats to Northeast Louisiana and LED for securing the WIN!