Dateline: August 23, 2001

Local sales tax rebates edge upward

AUSTIN – Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander last week allocated $292.1 million in sales tax revenue to 1,110 Texas cities and 119 counties. August sales tax rebates are up six percent compared to August 2000. Year-to-date, payments to cities and counties are running 5.5 percent ahead of 2000.

Local retail sales edged upward last with the City of Clarendon gaining 0.47 percent over the same period last year for a total of $25,435.84. Hedley’s rebate grew from $695.18 to $899.15, and Howardwick’s rebate grew from $916.40 to $1,068.36.

August sales tax rebates represent sales taxes collected in April, May and June and reported to the Comptroller in July.

For details of August sales tax payments to individual cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts,  click here.