After St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper and some members of the Parish Council questioned a political group's findings on how the parish spends its sales tax revenue , the group has doubled down in a report released this week.

The St. Tammany Chamber PAC, which is the political arm of the parish's Chamber of Commerce, said in a new report that a large portion of the revenue from the 2% sales tax levied in unincorporated St. Tammany goes toward administrative and departmental expenses, and not infrastructure expenses.

While the sales tax brings in around $90 million, the group claims that between 2020 and 2024 only around $25 million on average went directly toward infrastructure, with the rest going to departmental and administrative expenses.

But Cooper on Friday once again di

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