When is the Louisiana homestead exemption deadline?
We could not verify a statewide homestead exemption deadline for Louisiana; the 4 counties on this site each carry a deadline read from that office's own page instead.
No source to link. Could not reach the Louisiana Tax Commission site (administering agency) to verify any statutory deadline.
We could not verify a statewide answer, and we are not inventing one
The Louisiana Tax Commission site refused every route we tried on the day we collected this — direct requests, its own redirect chain, and a text proxy — and there is no usable archived copy. So the state-level fields on this site are marked unverified rather than filled in with the answer that is probably correct. Probably correct is not a standard we apply to a date somebody will act on.
What we do have is the parishes. Four parish assessors publish their own filing instructions and those are sourced, dated and on their own pages here.
Louisiana parishes describe timing, not deadlines
The pattern across the parish records is that assessors answer "when" by naming an event — after you buy, once you have moved in — rather than by naming a date. Where an assessor says filing is open all year, the page says so and quotes them. Where an assessor simply never says when, the page says that instead. Those are different findings and flattening them into "there is no deadline" would be our inference wearing the assessor's voice.
Orleans Parish has no page here, on purpose
The Orleans Parish Assessor publishes no filing deadline for the base homestead exemption. The only dated rule on the site governs the separate assessment-level freeze. We would rather ship 44 counties than 45 with one guess in it, so Orleans keeps its row in the national table with the reason attached and gets no page until an official statement exists.
More about Louisiana
- Does the Louisiana homestead exemption have to be renewed?
- Several parish assessors state that the exemption is permanent while you own and occupy the home. The separate age and disability freezes are a different matter and at least one parish requires those to be resubmitted annually.
- Why does this site call them parishes?
- Because Louisiana does. The filing office is the parish assessor, and using the state's own word for its own jurisdictions is the least we can do on a page about getting the details right.
Louisiana counties on this site
- East Baton Rouge Parish homestead exemption deadline
- Jefferson Parish homestead exemption deadline
- St. Tammany Parish homestead exemption deadline
- Lafayette Parish homestead exemption deadline
Related
- Louisiana: the state rule in full
- Every county deadline we hold, in one table
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- When is the Florida homestead exemption deadline?
- When is the Georgia homestead exemption deadline?
- When is the Oklahoma homestead exemption deadline?
- When is the Illinois homestead exemption deadline?
- What is the Michigan homestead exemption, and when is it due?
What this site is
HomesteadDeadlines is not a government website and is not affiliated with any appraisal district, assessor’s office or county tax office.
Applying for a homestead exemption with your county is free. We do not file it for you, we do not charge you anything, and we never ask you to pay to apply.
Deadlines and eligibility are set by the office named on each Louisiana county page and are governed by its current notices. This page was verified on 2026-08-04.