The path ahead for Gov. Jeff Landry is not clear after not securing the votes in the Louisiana Legislature on a sales tax increase.

A central part of Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to revamp the state’s tax laws is struggling to gain the votes needed to pass, and some lawmakers have said the bill that would expand the sales tax to services and labor is dead in its current form.

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed individual and corporate tax cuts, along with a constitutional amendment.

Jeff Landry’s complicated tax package continued to power forward Wednesday as a key legislative committee approved more than $1 billion in new sales taxes. That money would mostly offset the House’s decision the day before to cut income taxes and repeal the corporate franchise tax.

BATON ROUGE — Key provisions of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's plan to cut personal income and corporate taxes passed the state House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House voted 87-12 to shift individual income tax rates to a flat 3% and 83-14 to ...

If approved by the full House and Senate, the plan would eliminate the current tax brackets and move the state closer to eliminating the income tax.

The Louisiana House passed a number of bills Tuesday that are part of Gov. Jeff Landry’s tax reform session. The foundational legislation, HB 1 lowers the personal income tax rate to a flat 3%.