City sales taxes down, county up

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As the economy was reopening in May, retail sales in Snyder fell compared to last year, while Scurry County experienced an increase, according to data from Texas Comptroller Glen Hegar’s office. While statewide sale tax allocations — which are an indication of retail sales — were down 2.6 percent across the state, Snyder was down 11.28 percent while Scurry County was up 2.24 percent

The City of Snyder will receive $266,090 in sales tax revenue this month, down about $33,000 compared to last July, when the city received $299,934 from the state. Year-to-date the city has received just less than $1.85 million back from the state, compared to just more than $2 million over the first six months of 2019. That represents a 7.64 percent decrease.  Scurry County will receive $207,665 in sales tax allocations this month, a 2.24 percent increase from last July, when the county received $203,108 back from the state.

Year-to-date the county has received just more than $1.42 million back from the state, a 1.79 percent increase — about $25,000 — over last year’s 1.4 million.

Most cities in the region received higher allocations in July. Andrews, Rotan and Roby each saw double-digit increases in their allocations.

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced this week he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $744.2 million in local sales tax allocations for July, 2.6 percent less than in July 2019. 

These allocations are based on sales made in May by businesses that report tax monthly.Widespread social distancing requirements were relaxed across much of the state in May, thus year-over-year declines were not as steep as they were last month.