Dateline: November 15, 2001

Sales tax rebates bounce back   

AUSTIN – Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander announced last week that she has sent $291.9 million in local sales tax revenue to Texas cities and counties.

November allocations are up 3.6 percent compared to November 2000. The allocations represent sales taxes collected in September by monthly filers and in July, August and September by quarterly filers.

Clarendon’s rebate of $27,477.78 is up more than 20 percent from the same period last year, and Hedley saw an increase of more than 10 percent to $919.24. Howardwick was down 21.5 percent to $1,095.15.

“These local sales tax figures confirm, even more strongly, what our state sales tax figures showed last week. The September 11 terrorist attacks reduced sales tax collections for a few days, but we bounced back,” Comptroller Rylander said.

Of the 20 Texas cities that receive the greatest amount of sales tax revenue, only six saw declines: Dallas, Austin, El Paso, Irving, Amarillo, and Round Rock.