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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

For December 2009, compared to December 2008, tax collections reflected a 15.25% decrease for the City and Parish combined. Year-to-date collections reflect a 5.96% decrease. 

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

RECURRING SALES TAX COLLECTIONS

For the Five Year Period 2005-2009
2% General Fund Tax
           2005            2006           2007            2008           2009
January $10,684,278 $12,931,962 $12,657,235 $12,831,422 $13,511,624
February 10,659,108 12,744,972 12,420,439 13,362,440 12,747,365
March 12,034,319 15,145,916 14,341,675 14,166,801 14,346,714
April 11,426,756 13,152,237 13,134,552 13,860,080 13,489,691
May 11,664,665 13,651,385 13,950,537 14,261,875 13,160,873
June 12,009,935 14,088,632 13,989,672 14,495,313 14,016,220
July 11,196,094 12,762,616 13,487,479 13,849,911 13,095,595
August 10,971,692 13,831,714 13,901,698 13,752,261 13,525,881
September 14,023,804 13,605,351 13,511,754 13,257,039 13,047,623
October 14,522,705 13,425,552 13,655,932 16,079,741 12,477,865
November 13,805,245 13,092,285 13,663,271 13,782,390 12,766,255
December    16,996,388    15,988,526    16,079,866    17,677,657  14,981,527 
Year $149,994,989 $164,421,148 $164,794,110 $171,376,930 $161,167,233
           
Yearly Increase/(Decrease):
Amount $17,220,574 $14,426,159 $372,962 $6,582,820 -$10,209,697
Percentage 12.97% 9.62% 0.23% 3.99% -5.96%
  • 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.