Local Sales Tax Allocations Are Up

AUSTIN – The state comptroller’s office will be sending out over $619 million in sales tax allocations for March. This is nearly 6% more than last March. For the most part, local sales tax allocations are running ahead of last years’ pace. Tyler’s check for March is $2,823,408.24. This is nearly 24.97% ahead of March of last year. For the year, Tyler’s sales tax allocation IS $10,407,447 million. That’s 4.65% more than last year. Longview’s March check is 2,097,579.76, or 2.85% over last March. For the year, Longview’s sales tax allocations are over $7,670,523.68. That is 0.33% more than last year.