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General 2% Sales & Use Tax Report
Breakdown of City-Parish Tax Collections (includes Vehicle Tax Collections) This document is in PDF format.  Download the free viewer from www.adobe.com

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For October 2011, compared to October 2010, tax collections reflected a 4.73% increase for the City and Parish combined.  Year-to-date collections reflect a 3.67% increase.  

Historical information relative to sales and use tax collections is presented below.

RECURRING SALES TAX COLLECTIONS

For the Five Year Period 2007-2011
2% General Fund Tax
           2007           2008            2009           2010           2011
January $12,657,235 $12,831,422 $13,511,624 $11,891,026 $12,269,899
February 12,420,439 13,362,440 12,747,365 11,827,010 12,417,732
March 14,341,675 14,166,801 14,346,714 14,204,819 14,424,297
April 13,134,552 13,860,080 13,489,691 13,116,866 13,096,055
May 13,950,537 14,261,875 13,160,873 12,545,680 13,293,564
June 13,989,672 14,495,313 13,963,301 13,395,492 13,784,759
July 13,487,479 13,849,911 13,064,749 12,525,611 12,804,395
August 13,901,698 13,752,261 13,525,881 13,054,566 13,847,870
September 13,511,754 13,257,039 13,047,623 12,859,476 13,582,091
October 13,655,932 16,079,741 12,477,865 12,551,100 13,144,618
November 13,663,271 13,782,390 12,766,255 12,681,102 13,493,354
December    16,079,866    17,677,657    14,981,527 15,638,087 __________
Year $164,794,110 $171,376,930 $161,083,468 $156,290,835 $146,158,634
           
Yearly Increase/(Decrease):
Amount $372,962 $6,582,820 -$10,293,462 -$4,792,633 $5,505,886
Percentage 0.23% 3.99% -6.01% -2.98% 3.91%

 

  • NOTE 1: The above report represents a customized presentation of "recurring" sales and use tax collections for use primarily by the management of City-Parish Government for various purposes including revenue forecasting. Amounts set forth are unaudited. They may not include certain non-recurring transactions such as those related to tax audits or year-end audit adjustments, which could distort comparisons.

  • NOTE 2: Since this is a customized report for special purposes as explained in Note 1 above, the monthly and annual totals in the report will generally be different than totals reflected in accounting records.