Clarendon’s sales tax revenue dips again for April

After moving up slightly last month, sales tax figures for the City of Clarendon slipped again when Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar made his April allocations last week.

Clarendon’s sales tax revenue dipped 5.46 percent to $24,697.69, and the city’s calendar year-to-date total slid 5.53 percent down to $115,860.84.

These allocations are based on sales made in February by businesses that report tax monthly. Clarendon’s figure has now dropped 11 of the last 15 months.

Hedley’s figure dropped 19.56 percent to $327.39 for the month but was still showing positive signs for the year, up 24.52 percent at $2,497.54.

Howardwick plummeted 39.90 percent to $640.65, but was still up 1.87 percent for the year-to-date at $4,444.40.

Across the state, Heger reported that local sales tax allocations were up 2.6 percent at $591.4 million compared to the same period one year ago.

“The cities of Dallas, Austin, Sugar Land and Fort Worth saw substantial increases in sales tax allocations that helped stop a four-month streak of declining sales tax allocations for the state overall,” Hegar said. “Energy-centric cities such as Houston and Midland continue to see decreases in sales tax allocations.”