How to setup Autofile for Louisiana

License Types

For sales tax purposes, Louisiana has three different license types. 

• Remote Seller: Seller has no physical presence in the state but makes more than $100,000 in annual sales or has 200 or more transactions in the state. This is most common among Shopify merchants.
• Direct Marketer: Seller has no physical presence in the state, Seller is not a remote seller or remote retailer, Seller voluntarily registered to collect tax.
• Standard: The seller has physical presence (e.g. people, property) in the state.
• You can learn more about the license type from the official remote seller site.

Depending on your license type, there are different ways to file your sales tax.

Remote Seller

• File through the Remote Sellers website. Please provide your remote seller tax ID, and the email address you used to register on the Remote Sellers website. 

• For your remote seller tax ID, you can find it following these steps.
• Click Home.
• Click Account Numbers.

• Find your remote seller tax ID in the Account No. column.

• For your remote seller email, you can find it following these steps.
• Hover on Account Center.
• Click My Account.
• You can find your remote seller email under User Information.

Direct Marketers

File through the LaTAP. Please provide your sales tax ID, zipcode, and last payment. There is a fixed combined sales tax rate of 8.45% for all sales. 

Standard

State tax: LaTAP. Please provide your sales tax ID, zipcode, and last payment. There is a fixed state sales tax rate of 4.45% for all states.

File local tax through the Parish E-file website. Please provide the email address you used to register on the Parish E-file website. 

Approve Third-Party Access Request

Once Sidr Tax submits an access request to your accounts, you will receive a notification by email. Please login to your account to accept our request.

Updated on: 01/01/2026