That percentage is slightly higher than that reported for Beeville and significantly better than that for Bee County, according to the latest report from the comptroller’s office.
Beeville’s payment of $206,925.43 was 14.64 percent lower than the $242,423.87 payment the city received for the same period last year.
Year-to-date payments for the city are down by 1.87 percent, from $2,050,014.51 to $2,011,612.58.
Bee County received a payment of only $73,986.92 for this period as its rebate for the half-cent sales tax it collects.
That was 31.24 percent less than the $107,616.17 the county received for the same period last year.
Since January the county has seen its sales tax rebates decline by 13 percent from $906,964.55 to $789,025.27.
“Monthly sales tax collections continue to decline as most major sectors of the economy, including oil and gas, construction and retail trade, continue to struggle,” Combs said. “For fiscal 2009, which began in September 2008, state sales tax collections totaled $20.9 billion. Collections grew through January 2009, but monthly declines since that time resulted in overall collections dropping by 2.7 percent for the state fiscal year.”
Local governments will receive $428.3 million in monthly sales tax allocations on Monday, a 12.9 percent decrease compared to a year ago. So far this calendar year, local sales tax allocations are down 3.3 percent compared to the same period in 2008. Combs will send monthly sales tax allocations of $290.3 million to Texas cities, down 12.2 percent compared to last year. Texas counties will receive sales tax allocations of $25.8 million, down 16.5 percent compared to a year ago.
The 152 special purpose taxing districts around the state are getting $16.4 million in sales tax revenue, a decrease of 11.6 percent compared to a year ago. Ten Texas transit systems will get $95.8 million in sales tax, down 14.4 percent compared to a year ago.
The state and local sales tax figures represent sales that occurred in July.
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