Clarendon sales tax revenue keeps climbing

City Hall continues to enjoy higher sales tax receipts following Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ latest allocation last week.

Clarendon received $38,081.87 for its October allocation, up 11.9 percent over the same period in 2012. The city is also up 23.03 percent for the calendar year-to-date with revenue of $379,504.17 compared to $308,446.79 for the same point in 2012.

Howardwick was almost even for the month with an allocation of $1,436.24, an increase of 0.06 percent compared to $1,435.35 last year. That city is up 2.56 percent for the year at $15,969.66.

Hedley dropped 6.73 percent to $835.68 for the month put remains up 27.85 percent for the year-to-date at $15,969.66.

Combs said statewide sales tax revenue in October was $2.14 billion, up 5.4 percent compared to October 2012.

“Growth in sales tax revenues was led by collections from the telecommunications sector,” Combs said.

“The construction sector also showed significant gains. State sales tax revenue has increased for 43 consecutive months.”

Combs will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts their November local sales tax allocations totaling $654.6 million, up 7 percent compared to November 2012.

The sales tax figures represent September sales reported by monthly tax filers and July, August, and September sales reported by quarterly filers.