County sales tax income up from last year

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

Statewide, the disbursement of $223,728,674 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $11,396,388 from the $212,030,286 distributed to the cities and towns in September last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $43,433,217 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $42,388,791 sales tax disbursement and a $8,826,674 use tax disbursement.