July sales tax collections down for Alva, Freedom

 

August 4, 2019



Sales tax collections in July for Alva were down by 11.8 percent compared to July 2018, but use tax from sales outside of Alva such as internet purchases was almost double. When adding sales and use tax together, Alva was down 7.88 percent from last year.

Freedom sales tax was down 45.7 percent, while Waynoka was up 10.7 percent compared to last July. Nearby Cherokee showed an 11 percent increase.

Woods County was down 33.19 percent compared to July 2018 collections. Alfalfa County sales tax was down slightly more with a 33.76 percent difference. However, both counties nearly doubled the amount of use taxes collected when compared to last year.

The July distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission primarily represents local tax receipts from May business. Companies that remit more than $2,500 monthly in sales tax receipts are required to file and pay electronically. The monies they reported this period represent sales from May 16th to May 31st and estimated sales from June 1st to June 15th.

The disbursement of $158,864,212 in sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected a decrease of $768,194 from the $159,632,406 distributed to the cities and towns in July last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and towns was $20,149,421.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $28,521,962 sales tax disbursement and a $3,961,072 use tax disbursement.

Cherokee’s sales tax rate went down one-fourth of a percent (0.0025) beginning July 1, 2019. However, a recent election will soon increase that rate back to 3.25 percent.

SALES TAX

CITIES Rate July 2019 Rate July 2018

Alva 0.0425 $ 301,019.68 0.0425 $ 341,358.35

Carmen 0.03 $ 6,890.15 0.03 $ 4,159.84

Cherokee 0.0325 $ 60,720.10 0.0325 $ 54,676.10

Enid 0.0425 $2,955,475.80 0.0425 $3,251,120.51

Freedom 0.02 $ 1,072.06 0.02 $ 1,972.91

Goltry 0.03 $ 1,801.65 0.03 $ 1,688.21

Helena 0.03 $ 11,345.40 0.03 $ 11,540.34

Waynoka 0.04 $ 37,838.73 0.04 $ 34,181.72

Woodward 0.04 $1,071,340.23 0.04 $1,057,301.35

COUNTIES

Alfalfa 0.02 $ 138,350.69 0.02 $208,861.07

Woods 0.005 $ 61,289.87 0.005 $91,738.53

USE TAX

CITIES Rate July 2019 Rate July 2018

Alva 0.0425 $ 24,071.86 0.0425 $ 11,542.39

Carmen 0.03 $ 1,008.00 0.03 $ 542.55

Cherokee 0.0325 $ 11,210.26 0.0325 $ 7,458.62

Enid 0.0425 $300,169.56 0.0425 $281,261.51

Goltry 0.03 $ 520.32 0.03 $ 231.22

Helena 0.03 $ 745.72 0.03 $ 498.89

Waynoka 0.04 $ 14,796.84 0.04 $ 2,367.54

Woodward 0.04 $ 79,719.82 0.04 $ 53,606.01

COUNTIES

Alfalfa 0.02 $ 29,111.07 0.02 $15,489.16

Woods 0.005 $ 10,336.35 0.005 $ 5,273.82

 

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