County sales tax income up from last year

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from August business. The monies they reported this period represent sales from August 16 to 31 and estimated sales from September 1 to 15.

Statewide, the disbursement of $220,819,440 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $18,900,768 from the $201,918,672 distributed to the cities and towns in October last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $43,687,163 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $40,056,620 sales tax disbursement and a $9,106,096 use tax disbursement.