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Longview sales tax income dips
Sales tax revenues dipped for the second consecutive month in Longview. Longview’s share of sales taxes collected in the city in March were down by 1.39 percent, according to figures released Friday morning by the Texas Comptroller’s Office. Longview is receiving $2.593 million in sales tax revenues this month compared with $2.63 million in May 2007. On a year-to-date basis Longview’s sales tax revenues for the first five months of 2008 are ahead of the same period in 2007 by 2.66 percent. The city’s sales tax revenues for January through May total $11.838 million, up from the $11.531 million it received in the same period in 2007. Longview posted increases in sales tax revenues in the first three months of the year. Sales tax revenues in Kilgore this month are up 8.8 percent; Gladewater’s are down 14.96 percent; White Oak’s are up 0.65 percent; Marshall’s are down 2 percent; Hallsville is down 14.1 percent; Carthage is up 3.26 percent; Henderson is up 1.2 percent; and Gilmer is down 0.39 percent. Revenues received by the city in May reflect taxes collected by businesses in March and reported to the state in April, officials said.
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