Louisiana gambling tax calculator
Louisiana taxes your gross gambling winnings and allows no deduction for losses, so a losing year can still produce a state tax bill.
Your estimate
Enter your state, winnings, and losses to see an estimate.
Checked against Louisiana’s own sources on 2026-10-05.
How Louisiana treats gambling losses
Louisiana does not let a casual gambler offset winnings with losses at all, so how you file federally makes no difference to the state figure.
The two examples below are the same numbers the calculator uses, worked at Louisiana rates.
Two examples, worked at 2026 Louisiana rates
A single filer with $60,000 of other income who takes the standard deduction on everything except gambling losses.
A losing year
You win $50,000 and lose $52,000, so you finish down $2,000.
- Federal
- $3,596
- Louisiana
- $1,500
- Total
- $5,096
You finished the year down and still owe tax.
Federally you itemize, so your losses offset your winnings, but the 2026 rule caps that deduction at 90 percent and leaves $3,200 taxable. Louisiana starts from your federal income and allows no deduction for gambling losses, so the full $50,000 is taxed at 3 percent, which comes to $1,500.
A winning year
You win $50,000 and lose $10,000, so you finish up $40,000.
- Federal
- $10,350
- Louisiana
- $1,500
- Total
- $11,850
Federally you take the $16,100 standard deduction, which is worth more than itemizing, so your gambling losses do not reduce your federal tax at all. Louisiana starts from your federal income and allows no deduction for gambling losses, so the full $50,000 is taxed at 3 percent, which comes to $1,500.
The rules behind these numbers
- Sports betting taxes, start to finish
- The 90 percent loss deduction, and where it bites hardest
- What a W-2G tells you, and what it does not
- Where winnings and losses go on your return, and estimated tax
- Per wager or per session, and why it changes your bill
- Filing as a professional, and what it does not fix