Dateline: November 21, 2002

Local sales tax rebates decline

Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander delivered $368.9 million in monthly sales tax payments to local governments last week.

Rylander sent sales tax rebates of $252.3 million to Texas cities and $20.2 million to Texas counties. Seventy-four special purpose taxing districts received $9.8 million, and Texas’ six metropolitan transit authorities and two city transit departments received $86.5 million in sales tax revenue.

Local rebates were mostly down with Clarendon dropping 13.87 percent to $23,665.88 and Hedley dropping 33.75 percent to $608.92. Howardwick was up from $1,095.15 for the same period one year ago to $1,446.45 this year

November sales tax rebates include local sales taxes collected in September by monthly filers and in July, August and September by quarterly filers, and reported to the Comptroller in October. The state’s share of sales tax reported during this period was $1.1 billion.