Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 61 - REVENUE AND TAXATION
Part I - Taxes Collected and Administered by the Secretary of Revenue
Chapter 9 - Hazardous Waste Tax
Section I-905 - Imposition of Tax

A. The tax is imposed upon the disposal, as defined by R.S. 47:821, of any hazardous waste and on hazardous waste stored for more than 90 days for the purpose of eventual incineration at sea. R.S. 47:821 defines disposal to include storage in excess of 90 days; therefore, the tax is imposed on any storage in excess of 90 days, not only on storage for the purpose of eventual incineration at sea.

B. A disposer or generator who voluntarily removes hazardous waste from an inactive or abandoned site shall not be subjected to imposition of this tax when the hazardous waste is disposed of again. Disposers receiving such waste are required to charge the tax on waste received by them and disposers or generators voluntarily removing waste from an inactive or abandoned site are required to pay the tax to the disposer; however, the disposer or generator voluntarily removing the waste may exclude the exempt amounts from the calculation of the tax on his return while taking credit on his return for the tax paid to the disposer. Whenever a generator or disposer excludes waste from the tax calculation under this provision, he shall attach to his return a signed statement declaring that he is entitled to the exemption and a schedule detailing by manifest number the total gross tons excluded, the type of waste, and the disposer who received the waste, or other appropriate records acceptable to the secretary. Credit claimed under this provision shall be disallowed if it is determined that the removal or redisposal of the waste was in violation of the laws, rules, or regulations administered by the Department of Environmental Quality or that the waste was not voluntarily removed from an inactive or abandoned.

C. A generator who has been classified as a small-quantity generator by the Department of Environmental Quality and has received written permission from the Department of Environmental Quality to store hazardous waste in excess of 90 days may elect to report the taxable storage in excess of 90 days in the quarter in which the waste is removed from storage, rather than the quarter in which the storage period actually exceeded 90 days. This method of reporting may be used only for those wastes authorized by the Department of Environmental Quality to be stored in excess of 90 days. If this method of reporting is elected, the tax shall be due at the rate established for taxable disposal at a site other than the site at which the waste is generated, regardless of how or where the waste is ultimately disposed of.