Lamar Revenue Taxes Show Monthly Gain
Russ Baldwin | Jun 10, 2015 | Comments 0
The City of Lamar’s April Sales and Used Tax shows a 3.96% improvement over April 2014 by $9,235.95 with $242,352 collected this past May and $233,116 collected last year. Other Sales and Use Tax collections improved 1.06% over the same time last year for a gain of $2,784. Total collections for April 2015 are at $264,914.
Year to date figures from January to May of this year show a 7.93% gain on City Sales Tax for an improvement of $99,320 with collections at $1,351,684 for 2015 compared to $1,252,364 for the same period last year. Total Sales and Use Tax collections are at $1,472,441 for this year and were $1,373,091 for 2014.
A breakdown of the 12 retail sales categories, collected January through May 2015 are as follows:
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| Auto Parts/Repair | 56,173 | 54,597 | 62,428 |
| Building Materials | 39,832 | 36,820 | 36,484 |
| Apparel/Dept Stores | 485,719 | 446,848 | 447,736 |
| C Stores/Gas | 40,844 | 40,268 | 45,805 |
| All Business/Electricity | 93,357 | 90,273 | 98,077 |
| Furn/Appl, Electronics | 11,617 | 11,025 | 10,306 |
| Grocery Stores | 111,912 | 103,547 | 111,705 |
| Motels | 56,016 | 51,556 | 46,944 |
| Liquor Sales | 43,671 | 37,883 | 39,873 |
| Manufacturing | 26,215 | 2,281 | 5,397 |
| Restaurants | 138,312 | 130,171 | 131,848 |
| Other Retail/All Other | 1,456,106 | 1,302,484 | 1,385,358 |
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