Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has continued to take a cut of the Orleans Parish School Board’s tax revenues, irking City Council members who passed a law this spring to forbid that practice while a six-year-old lawsuit over the city’s tax collections plays out.

The administration has maintained in court that the collection fee is a necessary payment for services rendered, as city officials collect property tax revenues on the school board’s behalf and disburse them to the board.

The School Board, meanwhile, says the fee is illegal, and the council joined the board in a long-running lawsuit that alleges the School Board is entitled to all taxes assessed in its name. After a proposed settlement in that lawsuit fell apart last year, the council passed a law in April that bars the

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