State stales-tax collections, rebates down - San Antonio Business Journal:

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percent decrease from the same monthjlast year. It also distributed $441 millionm in rebates to local governments this Texas Comptroller Susan Combs says the totakrebate figure, or sales tax allocation, was down 3.9 percenrt compared to last June. “Weakness throughourt most sectors of the economyt resulted in a significant decrease in May salesdtax collections,” Combs says. “While year-to-datde sales tax revenue is up 0.5 percen for state fiscal 2009, further declines are expected this The City of San Antonio received a tax rebatsof $16.3 million this a 0.75 percent drop from last year’s Bexar County’s rebate for June was 18.3 a decline of 0.
19 percent comparefd with June 2008. And San Antonio’sd system received a rebate of $7.3 million, a 0.55 percent decline from last June’s June’s sales tax allocations are based on salesz that occurredin April. Overall, Texaz cities received $297 million in sales tax rebates this a 3 percent decrease compared toJune 2008. Rebatesd to Texas counties were $26.4 down 6.9 percent compared to June of last The 150 special purpose taxing districts arounfd the state received a totalof $17.1 millionh in rebates in June. This was a 0.9 percent declinr compared withJune 2008. In the state’s 10 local transit among whichis VIA, received a total of $100.
4 million in saleds tax allocations in June, down 6 percent compared to the same monthb last year.