City of Lamar – January 2020 Sales and Use Tax Report

Barbara Crimond | Feb 11, 2020 | Comments 0

Sales tax revenue collections for the City of Lamar began on a positive note for December sales, collected in January, 2020.

City Sales Tax collections were up 5.14% for a total of $377,904 for 2020, compared to $359,434 for 2019 for a gain of $18,470. Use Tax collections were up 12.56% for a gain of $3,358 over last year while Total Sales and Use Tax collections were up 5.03% for an increase of $20,050 over last year at this time. 2020 collections were at $418,455 and collections for 2019 were at $398,405.

The 12 sales tax categories remained fairly consistent comparing 2020 to 2019 for the beginning of the year, with some variations of less than $100 noted for several areas between the two years.

	2018	2019	2020
Auto Parts-Repairs	12,846	13,675	13,660
Building Materials	43,453	11,066	8,729
Apparel-Dept Stores	119,359	118,790	120,415
C Stores-Gas Sales	11,030	15,283	16,543
All Business-Electricity	61,659	23,926	23,309
Furn-Appliance-Elec	3,572	3,978	3,900
Grocery Stores	23,418	24,478	23,182
Hotels-Motels	13,288	9,487	10,453
Liquor Sales	1,651	11,315	11,052
Manufacturing	2,375	3,705	8,913
Restaurants	29,109	28,904	31,598
Other Retail-All Other	142,320	118,412	127,888