City Sees Big Jump in May Sales Tax Revenue
Royse City’s sales tax rebate for May is expected to be more than $680,000, a 23.04% increase from the $553,000 received in May 2021.
Royse City’s sales tax rebate for May is expected to be more than $680,000, a 23.04% increase from the $553,000 received in May 2021.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar stated in a Monday press release that the state sales tax revenue totaled $3.83 billion in April, 12.8 percent more than in April 2021.
On Monday, April 4, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.37 billion in March, 28.5 percent more than in March 2021.
The city plans 17 new street improvement projects in the coming year using revenue from the quarter-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2019, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird announced Thursday.
Tompkins County officials expect an uptick in sales tax collections to close out a year in which monthly sales tax reports have mostly outpaced figures factored into 2021’s county budget, according to a report from the county’s Finance Department.