July 18, 2024
The latest sales tax numbers are in and once again two out of three of western Oklahoma’s larger communities collected over $1 million.
The latest numbers reflect sales tax intake from the month of May.
Starting with those cities, the City of Elk City saw a 5.1% increase by collecting $1,300,773.85. The City of Weatherford was down by 7.9% but still brought in $1,080,453.86 and the City of Clinton was down 4.9% after collecting $566,181.26.
By comparison, the City of Altus was barely down at 0.3% with an intake of $1,111,073.12 of sales tax dollars and Woodward saw a 1.4% decrease by bringing in $1,133,195.18.
Smaller communities in the area had Sayre down 20% ($140,041.85), Mangum saw a decrease of 3.7% ($48,631.43), Hobart up 7.6% ($137,619.72) and Cordell down 0.7% ($97,931.54).
The state as a whole was down 0.6% by collecting $236,262,520.41 in the month of May.
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