Sales tax growth seen in June

  • June Payments to Area Cities Burnet up 22% $357,114 Copperas Cove up 1% $558,229 Evant up 25% $6,289 Gatesville up 5% $237,693 Goldthwaite up 21% $47,619 Hamilton up 17% $68,454 Kempner up 30% $18,801 Lampasas up 1% $236,680 Lometa up 10% $9,217 Marble Falls up 2% $1,163,488 San Saba down 6% $54,818 Lampasas, Copperas Cove and Marble Falls showed small gains this month in their sales tax allocations, while Kempner, Burnet and Evant posted hefty increases for June. DISPATCH RECORD GRAPHIC
    June Payments to Area Cities Burnet up 22% $357,114 Copperas Cove up 1% $558,229 Evant up 25% $6,289 Gatesville up 5% $237,693 Goldthwaite up 21% $47,619 Hamilton up 17% $68,454 Kempner up 30% $18,801 Lampasas up 1% $236,680 Lometa up 10% $9,217 Marble Falls up 2% $1,163,488 San Saba down 6% $54,818 Lampasas, Copperas Cove and Marble Falls showed small gains this month in their sales tax allocations, while Kempner, Burnet and Evant posted hefty increases for June. DISPATCH RECORD GRAPHIC
    For most cities in the Central Texas area, June was a much better month for sales tax rebates than May had been. Only San Saba recorded a decline in revenues compared to June 2023, and the gains posted by other entities pushed their year-to-date numbers higher for the first half of 2024.For the seventh consecutive month, the city of Kempner showed the highest percentage increase for the ...

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