Dover and Okarche had higher sales tax checks in September compared to the same month a year earlier.

All other county towns showed lower returns along with Kingfisher County.

The September distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission primarily represents local tax receipts from July business.  

Companies that remit more than $2,500 monthly in sales tax receipts are required to file and pay electronically.  

The monies they reported this period represent sales from July 16 to July 31  and estimated sales from Aug.1 to Aug. 15.

The statewide disbursement of $161,992,104 in sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $7,922,731 from the $154,069,373 distributed to the cities and towns in September last year.  The use tax disbursement to cities and towns was $23,427,966.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $29,298,645 sales tax disbursement and a $4,424,217 use tax disbursement.

Comparisons of use tax checks, which reflect tax collected on purchases made out of entity for delivery within an entity were listed as follow with the September 2019 amount listed first:

Cashion – $5,683.29 and $6,638.49

Crescent – $7,203.43 and $4,957.73.

Dover – $3,617.80 and $1,525.39.

Hennessey – $14,120.73 and $11,346.73.

Kingfisher – $67,909.14 and $36,320.86.

Okarche – $14,631.00 and $22,444.07.

Kingfisher County – $219,027.66 and $355,181.88.

Use tax rates are the same as an entity’s sales tax rate.

See the September sales tax comparison chart on Page 12.