Sales tax receipts rise in Killeen area | Sales tax receipts rise in Killeen area | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=8018 | 2013-03-08T06:56:00Z | 2013-03-07T00:00:00Z |
KILLEEN, HARKER HEIGHTS, COPPERAS COVE - Killeen sales tax receipts rose 2.69 percent for March 2013 with $1.43 million collected, up from $1.39 million in March 2012.
Harker Heights will collect about $357,000, up from $353,600 in 2012, an increase of nearly 1 percent. Copperas Cove jumped from nearly $269,600 in 2012 to $291,880 in 2013, an increase of 8.26 percent. For the year so far, Copperas Cove is up 9.91 percent.
Statewide, March local sales tax allocations totaled $531.3 million, up 12.2 percent compared to March 2012, according to Susan Combs, the state comptroller.
For cities and counties, see the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
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