regional Indicators

sales tax allocations

Sales tax allocations (Sales Tax Rebates) for selected cities (Brownsville, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo, Hidalgo, McAllen, Harlingen, Rio Grande City, Progreso, Roma, El Paso, & Presidio). Figures are updated on a monthly basis.

Sales Tax Allocations (Tax Rebates) figures provided by Carole Keeton Rylander, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and compiled by the Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development. Sales Tax Allocations shown for selected South Texas border cities. Yearly totals, Gross and Taxable sales reported and maintained quaterly on selected cities for all industry and retail outlets.

Summaries show the total dollars returned to a local sales taxing city, county, special purpose district or transit authority by the Comptroller's office for their local sales tax collections.

Allocation amounts are dependent upon the timing and accuracy of taxpayers' returns, but generally represent taxes collected on sales made two months or more prior to the allocation payment.

City Yearly Tax Allocations

quarterly sales tax reports

Reports are available for all 11 SIC Major Industry Divisions, plus "All Industries" and "Other". See Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes 1987 for a list of codes and their descriptions.

Reports cover the period from the first calendar quarter of 1989 through the currently available quarter. The reports show

• gross sales
• amount subject to state sales tax
• and the number of reporting outlets

About the Data in the Reports
The reports include data only from holders of sales tax permits. Businesses that sell only goods that are outside the sales tax base are not covered by these reports. A business that files yearly reports will show up only in a single quarter.

Quarterly City Sales Tax Report