Clarendon’s sales tax revenue this month posted its first positive growth over 2013 since the March allocation from Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ office.
The city showed increased sales tax receipts the first three months of 2014 until April, at which time monthly figures had to compete with numbers from 2013 when an influx of pipeline workers drove sales to unusually high levels.
The November allocation reported last week shows Clarendon receiving $42,786.39 this month, up 12.35 percent over the same period in 2013. Looking at the two-year record, the city’s allocation this period is up 25.7 percent compared to November 2012 when revenue was $34,037.
Clarendon’s year-to-date figure is still off 3.29 percent at $366,991.99 compared to 2013, but the city is up 18.98 percent compared to this same point in 2012 when the total was $308,446.79.
Hedley is up 1.58 percent this month at $848.92 and is also up 5.84 percent for the year-to-date at $6,673.69.
Howardwick dropped 13.84 percent for November at $1,237.37, and down for the year 21.53 percent at $12,529.82.
Across the state, Combs said that sales tax revenue in October was $2.41 billion, up 12.9 percent compared to October 2013.
“Strong growth in sales tax receipts was apparent across all major economic sectors,” Combs said.
The sales tax figures represent September sales reported by monthly tax filers and July, August and September sales reported by quarterly filers.
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