2010-03-18 / Front Page

Sales-tax revenue remains steady across county

While individual ups and downs were recorded among individual municipalities, Henderson County maintained the same salestax revenue stream as last year, in a comparison of numbers in a Texas Office of the Comptroller report posted on that department’s Web site Friday.

In that March report, the 16 county entities combined to receive slightly more than $2.92 million in March. That was only a 0.12 decline from 2009’s three-month total of $2.95 million.

For March, the decline was a small percentage more. The entities combined for a total of $640,765.07, down 2.47 percent from the $657,031.17 in last year’s month of March.

Individually:

•Brownsboro has topped $34,000 for the year, an increase of 14.88 percent. For 2010, it has posted the largest percentage increase of any Henderson County municipality to date.

For the latest month’s report, the City was up 1.04 percent for March.

•Chandler’s situation is slightly different. It is, so far in 2010, down by more than 10.4 percent in salestax revenues. Its total of $94,868.22 was down from the $105,982.28 it had received by the end of March last year.

For the month, Chandler was down by 5.09 percent compared to March 2009.

•Athens was down by about $6,600 in March compared to last year but, with revenues of $291,436.25, that was a decrease of only 2.21 percent for the month.

For the year, Athens — the No. 1 collector of the sales tax in the county — is up about a quarter of one percentage point, with revenues of $1.078 so far in 2010.

•Malakoff’s returns held steady for the year, even increasing by 0.61 percent to slightly more than $78.000 so far for the year.

And, for March, the latest return was 1.85 percent larger than the same month last year, as revenues topped $25,000.

•Seven Points is up more than 3 percent for the year with revenues of $109,852.13 so far. March revenues were essentially the same, compared with 2009’s March.

•Along with Chandler, Caney City (down 14.59 percent) and Berryville (negative 11.52 percent) are also behind last year’s pace by double-digit percentage points.

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