{"id":187465,"date":"2012-05-10T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187465"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:08:53","slug":"monthly-city-sales-tax-figures-drop-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187465","title":{"rendered":"Monthly City Sales Tax Figures Drop Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=187466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-187466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/thumb_MarkMcDaniel.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_MarkMcDaniel\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187466\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Tyler\u2019s sales tax revenues deposited for the month of May have decreased .76% as compared to May 2011. This has resulted in a 1.84% cumulative year-to-date increase. The reported revenue of $3,282,753.29 comprises $2,188,502.19 general sales tax revenue and $1,094,251.10 half-cent sales tax revenue. The figures from the state comptroller\u2019s office represent receipts from March 2012 collections as there is a two-month lag before taxes are reported and remitted back to the City from the State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed to see this slight decrease in collections after experiencing an almost 11 percent increase last month,\u201d said City Manager Mark McDaniel. \u201cThe economy is slowly recovering; however, we are seeing significant fluctuations in sales tax revenues. Consequently, we are approaching our expenditures and next year\u2019s budget in a very conservative manner. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe year-to-date increase of 1.84% is still below our budget of 3% growth; so, at this time, we will continue with the soft hiring freeze that was put in place as a precautionary measure to ensure we are keeping our expenses in balance with current revenues. In addition, we will continue the postponement of employee pay adjustments until we reach our goal of 3% growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler\u2019s sales tax revenues deposited for the month of May have decreased .76% as compared to May 2011. This has resulted in a 1.84% cumulative year-to-date increase. The reported revenue of $3,282,753.29 comprises $2,188,502.19 general sales tax revenue and $1,094,251.10 half-cent sales tax revenue. The figures from the state comptroller\u2019s office represent receipts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthly City Sales Tax Figures Drop Slightly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 07:28:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187465"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187778,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187465\/revisions\/187778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}