November 2019 Lamar City Sales Tax Revenue Report

Barbara Crimond | Jan 14, 2020 | Comments 0

While the November Sales and Use Tax collected in December showed a strong gain at 7.55%, the YTD collections for the year were off 1.5%. Total Sales and Use Tax collections were up $22,929 against last year with collections for 2018 at $303,556 and 2019 was $326,485. City Sales Tax for November was up 6.81% for a gain of $19,083 over the same period last year.

Year to Date collections were up a fraction at 0.83% for a gain of $29,060. Total Sales and Use Tax collections were off 1.5% for a drop of $58,327 compared to last year, overall. Total collections for 2018 were $3,888,818 compared to 2019 at $3,830,490. Use Tax collections for 2019 were off $90,147 for a 24.12% drop compared to last year with 2018 collections at $373,750.

Of the 12 Retail Tax classifications, three had sizeable decreases compared to last year, in Building Materials, C-Stores and Gas and All Business/Electricity.

	2017	2018	2019
Auto Parts-Repair	148,091	151,723	159,556
Building Materials	149,400	188,865	139,999
Apparel-Dept Stores	1,133,477	1,142,229	1,190,047
C Stores-Gas Sales	148,729	203,761	195,902
All Business/Electricity	261,873	284,674	214,090
Furn-Appliance-Electronics	22,634	19,986	18.931
Grocery Stores	274,960	275,473	272,816
Hotels/Motels	161,769	150,423	154,836
Liquor Sales	106,661	108,178	102,458
Manufacturing	9,984	9,183	14,641
Other Retail/All Other	696,658	699,619	723,520
Restaurants	361,790	360,372	388,804