Sales tax revenue collected by Texas County merchants dropped in the latest monthly distribution, the Missouri Department of Revenue reports.
The total from each of three half-cent sales taxes was about $96,584, which was down about $9,600 from the same monthly period a year ago.
For the year, collections are up about 3.7 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2014. For the year, about $533,400 has been collected. That’s up more than $18,000 from the first six months of 2014.