January sales across Orange County fell from the same time in 2018 as people recover from Hurricane Harvey, according to sales tax returns. Sales spiked for more than a year after the August 2017 storm.
The Texas Comptroller’s Office has sent the payments for January to the local entities with sales taxes. All of them had decreases from the same time period last year. The payments are:
Bridge City (1.5 percent sales tax): $121,344 for the month compared to $127,537 for last year, a drop of 4.85 percent. $416,319 for the year to date, compared to $460,004 for last year, a drop of 9.49 percent.
Orange (1.5 percent sales tax): $367,769 for the month compared to $410,966 for last year, a drop of 10.51 percent. $1.24 million for the year to date, compared to $1.408 million last year, an 11.91 percent drop.
Pinehurst (1.5 percent sales tax): $49,224 for the month compared to $51,148 for last year, a drop of 3.76 percent. $172,338 for the year to date compared to $181,563 last year, a drop of 5.08 percent.
Vidor (1.5 percent sales tax): $208,779 for the month compared to $222,770 for last year, a drop of 6.28 percent. $755,955 for the year to date compared to $781,018 for last year, a 3.2 percent drop.
West Orange (1.25 percent sales tax): $79,647 for the month compared to $86,609 last year, an 8.03 drop. $306,802 for the year to date compared to $346,603 for last year, an 11.48 percent drop.
Orange County (0.5 percent sales tax): $397,311 for the month compared to $424,526 last year, a drop of 6.41 percent. $1.34 million for the year to date compared to $1.39 million for last year, a 3.61 percent drop.
Orange County Emergency Services No. 3 (Little Cypress) (1.5 percent sales tax): $12,263 for the month compared to $16,938 last year, a drop of 27.6 percent. $46,968 for the year to date compared to $52,041 last year, a 9.74 percent drop.
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