Amazingly, both the City of Rockdale and Milam County managed to stay in positive territory for the year in the monthly sales tax distributions from the Comptroller’s Office.
But there’s a reason why.
There’s a considerable lag between the period for which sales taxes are collected and the time checks are mailed to governmental entities.
“These allocations are based on sales made in March by businesses that report tax monthly, and sales made in January, February and March by quarterly filers,” Comptroller Glenn Hegar noted.
That’s well before the bigger April downturn.
Hegar said the agency expects next month’s allocations, based on April sales, will show steeper declines.
CITY—Rockdale’s May check is $84, 850, a 7.06-percent change from $79,252 one year ago. That makes the year-to
That makes the year-todate total $356,094, up 1.8 percent from $349,775 in for the same period in 2019.
Milam County’s May check was $95,037, a whopping 59.06-percent less than the $232,156 recorded a year ago.
How does the county still come out ahead 9.34 percent for the year, going from $598,008 to $653,877? Milam’s March check was
Milam’s March check was up 71.5 percent from 2020.
Rockdale Municipal Development District (MDD) is up for the month and year.
The MDD’s May check of $42,131 was up 9.58 percent from the May 2019 total of $38,445.
For the year the MDD is up 6.99 percent, going from $169,708 to $181,574.
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