Due to questions raised to local accounting firms and their calls to Lafayette Airport Commission Chairman Matt Cruse, the airport commission wants to remind Lafayette Parish businesses that the collection of the 1% sales tax for the new LFT airport terminal will not start until April.

“The Lafayette Parish Council will certify the election results and call for the collection of the sales tax at it’s January 20th meeting,” said Cruse.

“The tax collection begins April 1 and ends eight months later on November 30.  After the council action, the Lafayette Parish Public School System’s Sales Tax Division will notify registered dealers who have an account, by mail, in February, March and again in April.  The school system’s tax division collects all parish sales tax revenues and then forwards them to the appropriate governmental agency.”