The new countywide 1% sales and use tax brought in $70,021.35 in the month of June. Thatis higher than the former 1% hospital capital improvement tax ever generated during the month of June except for the year 2007.
May’s receipts were $40,318.15, comparable to hospital tax receipts in May of 2003 and 2004 but less than the last several years of that tax, county Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers told commissioners Tuesday, August 17, 2010.
The county’s new tax will be used for numerous capital improvement recreation projects throughout the county.
The Department of Revenue has been paid $22,622.92 for start-up costs and $1,507.04 for costs related to processing the tax in May and June. With $21,417.71 still left over from the previous tax, plus the amount brought in so far for July, the county now has $147,627.25 in its 1% coffers.
Regarding the June receipts, Powers said, “I just wanted to report a little bit of good news!”
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