County sales tax income down from last year

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from May business. The monies they reported this period represent sales from May 16 to 31 and estimated sales from June 1 to 15.

Statewide, the disbursement of $213,570,576 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $9,632,596 from the $203,937,980 distributed to the cities and towns in July last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $42,058,113 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $37,911,667 sales tax disbursement and a $8,517,283use tax disbursement.