April City Sales Tax Shows a Gain

Barbara Crimond | Jun 13, 2019 | Comments 0

City sales tax revenue for the City of Lamar posted a two-fold gain for April, 2019. General sales tax collections were up 2.19% for a gain of $5,512 and Total Sales and Use Tax collections were up 6.71% for a gain of $18,511 over the previous year. April collections for 2019 were at $294,336 compared to $275,824 for 2018.

Year-to-Date collections continued to fall behind last year’s revenues with City Sales Tax down 4.85% for a loss of $71,865. 2018 collections were at $1,481,984 compared to $1,410,118 for the current year. Total Sales and Use Tax collections were down 8.07% for a decrease of $136,499 compared to last year. 2018 collections were at $1,690,762 compared to the current figure of $1,554,262.

Restaurant tax revenues posted a significant gain comparing recent figures from 2019 to 2018. There were noticeable drops in revenues in Building Materials, C-Store and Gas and All Business/Electricity.

	2017	2018	2019
Auto Parts-Vehicle Repair	56,889	62,332	61,173
Building Materials	41,063	87,400	50,374
Apparel- Department Stores	465,769	470,406	464,999
C Stores-Gas Stations	54,355	89,495	74,596
All Business-Electricity	106,541	138,603	86,225
Furn-Appliance-Electronics	11,270	9,225	9,800
Grocery Stores	105,527	110,654	108,873
Motels	45,862	54,682	51,258
Liquor Sales	40,282	43,986	40,468
Manufacturing	5,601	4,517	9,390
Other Retail-All Other	311,042	353,958	337,296
Restaurants	138,576	139,382	146,878