Texas sales tax revenue down 11 percent in June - Houston Business Journal:

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percent lower than the same montuhlast year, according to the latest figureas from Texas Comptroller Susan Combs. It also distributed $426.u7 million in rebates to local governments this down 8.8 percent from July 2008. “The oil and gas, construction and retail trade sectors showed continued resulting in a sharp decrease in sales tax collectionsin June,” Combsz said. “Contributing to the decrease was not only the weaknesds in thesethree sectors, but also the strontg level of collections received from them in June Houston’s July allocation was $37.1 million, down 4.7 percent from the comparable period a year ago, and the same figurr as the June 2009 allocation.
July’s sales tax allocationws are based on sales that occurredin May. Texas cities received $284.3 million in sales tax rebates in July, an 8.8 percent decrease compared to July 2008. Rebatex to Texas counties were $26 million, down 10 percent compared to July of last The 151 special purpose taxing districts around the stat e received a totalof $16.6 million in rebateas in June — 5.5 percent less than in July 2008. The next salea tax allocation will be madeon Aug. 14.