Alva Review-Courier -

The December distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) primarily represents local tax receipts from October business. Alva, Freedom and Waynoka all show slight increases from the same month a year ago. However, Woods County sales tax was lower than a year ago.

The OTC disbursed $154,648,811 in sales tax collections to cities and towns in December, a decrease of $4,830,778 from December 2019. The use tax disbursement to cities and towns was $26,747,038.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $25,051,185 sales tax disbursement and a $4,960,128 use tax disbursement. Use tax comes from sales made outside the city or county with materials shipped into the city or county such as online sales.

Alva received sales tax collections of $316,576.59 in December 2020 compared to $312,507.13 in December 2019. However, use tax was lower with $32,706.85 received compared to December a year ago of $34,422.29.

Freedom does not collect use tax. In sales tax, Freedom collected $1,714.97 for December compared to $1,411.65 a year ago.

Waynoka took in $36,017.78 in sales tax compared to $35,117.15 a year ago. In use tax collections, Waynoka received $6,647.90 compared to $8,823.46 a year ago.

Woods County received $64,800.83 in sales tax during December compared to $67,083.58 a year ago. In use tax collections, Woods County received $9,859.01, an increase from the $7,913.23 in December 2019.