Small Business Resources - Information and Help
Louisiana Economic Development Small Business System
Apply or Log into State Small Business Programs
Louisiana Small Business Development Centers
Locations throughout the state
Louisiana Secretary of State Commercial Division
Online Corporate Filings, Search Corporate Data Base and more
GeauxBiz.com
A place to go for licensing information needed to start a business in Louisiana.
US Small Business Administration
Starting & Managing a Business, Loans & Grant Programs, Government Contracting, more...
City of New Orleans Bureau of Revenue
see "Online Revenue Documents" for downloads of
important business licenses, tax forms and contact information.
Internal Revenue Service / IRS
Federal tax information, forms and online tax filing.
Louisiana Department of Revenue
Business Registration, information and online filing for state business taxes and parish sales and use tax.
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How important are small businesses to the U.S. economy? * Small Firms:
- Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
- Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
- Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
- Have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years.
- Create more than half of the nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).H
- Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer programmers).
- Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
- Made up 97.3 percent of all identified exporters and produced 30.2 percent of the known export value in FY 2007.
- Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms; these patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.
*Source: U.S Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy -
http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/7495/8420