From Sunday’s NDN:
Neosho, Mo. —
There was a little good news for Newton County this month when sales tax receipts came in high – for once.
June sales tax was up $86,000 over last year. Overall tax receipts have been steadily going down, with a few exceptions, since November 2008.
This month’s numbers are no crystal ball, said Presiding Commissioner Jerry Carter.
“There’s no rhyme or reason for the way they come in. It may come in very low this month and very high the next,” Carter said. “There’s just no way of predicting it because they don’t follow a pattern. The only pattern that you could really identify would be over a longer period of time.”
In June of last year the county took in $419,000. This year’s numbers are up, but in 2008 June income was $531,000.
For the year the county is down 3.5 percent, but it was 7 percent until this month.
The full article is here.
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