The State’s Sales Tax Allocations

AUSTIN – State Comptroller Glenn Hegar says he will be sending out $769.3 million in local sales tax allocations for August. That is just over 1% more than in August of last year. The results around East Texas are mixed. Tyler will be getting for the period $3,829,397.99. This is up 3.25% percent over the same period last year. Longview’s sales tax allocation is $3.268,633.33 million. That is nearly a 12% increase over the August figure last year. But there is still some ground to make up. For the year, Tyler has received over $26.412,726.45 million and Longview’s sales tax allocation for the year is $20.3309,776.50 million. But both cities are down just over 4% for the year.