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Sales tax revenue down yet again
Published Friday, July 17, 2009
CORRECTION: The original publication of this story contained an incorrect number about last year's sales tax revenues. City Clerk Donnie Holloway provided the incorrect number. The information is correct below, but the correct number for last year's revenues is $4,410,726. We regret the error and are happy to set the record straight.
NATCHEZ — For the third month in a row, sales tax collections in Natchez are showing a decrease.
May’s sales tax revenue, which was collected this month, was down 7.6 percent from May of last year.
This May, $422,781 was collected, compared to last May’s collection of $457,478.
So far this year $4,435,027 million has been collected, at this point last year, $4,410,726 million had been collected.
“The economy is catching up with us now,” City Clerk Donnie Holloway said. “We’re usually the last to get hit and the last to come back.”
Food and lodging tax revenue decreased 6.8 percent in May from May 2008.
A total of $29,166 was collected this month compared to last May’s $31,312 collection.
Holloway said he anticipates low reports for the next several months and this dip in revenue will play largely into budget discussions for the upcoming 2009-2010 fiscal year.
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Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 12:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 12:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wait till Bama triples our light bills and makes us pay for the green gas gimmick where all the politicians will get rich on coal burning plant scrubbers and regs and EPA clampin down on them. This country runs off of roughly 11 trillion dollars a year,1.5 trillion is going to be given away for health care to us all even if we don,t want it. The rich will start paying more or move and we will get crushed. What say Enrikur?
Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 12:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The politicians have their hands in all the so called Environmental save the earth scams,we pay and they and their friends that know ahead of us all get richer by having companies that get all the contracts.It,s all about the money and scammers.
Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 12:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Every Senator every Congressman, every Representative of the House does great things for their state, but they do lousy things for their country. A Senator in NC got a tee pot museum built in a mountain city and because of that she got elected again. She also voted to give the oil companies a tax break and to give illegal immigrants amnesty. But that doesn’t matter. She gave NC a tea pot museum that cost tax payers about $3-million and the people of NC love her because of the tea pot museum. Bless her heart, if she has one. This is the epitome of pork barreling.
I could go on ranting about this, but instead I’ll just stop and say, wake up America. We’re losing our country and it’s time we took it back from the crooked politicians who are ruining our country and its people.
It’s time that someone put up a website that lists each senator, congressman and representative of the house; what they voted for, how much the lobbyists gave them to vote that way and how many days they showed up for work. Then we can see for ourselves if they’re doing the job we elected them to do. And if they’re not, we can vote them out.
Posted by jlmorris (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 5:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"So far this year $4.4 million has been collected, at this point last year, $5.7 million had been collected."
Sales and Use taxes are down 22.8%???
It looks like those number challenged people are at it again.
Posted by beammeupscotty (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 7:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Most of the money spent by Congress is unconstitutional. Any tax dollars spent that doesn't benefit the nation as a whole is illegal. I don't know about Natchez's charter or whatever it is called but my guess is somewhere it was written in that taxes have to be for the good of all.
Posted by duck (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
din't stop jake and donnie from going to the coast.
Posted by beammeupscotty (anonymous) on July 17, 2009 at 2:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I might be wrong but, the American Revolution was started because England wanted to tax Americans at 14%, just another usless war considering we are now taxed at 30%. Well, some of us are. The government is out of control at all levels. Productive citizens are being punished by a corrupt system of government that has forgotten, "We The People" is how it all started.
Posted by frogprincenessntz (anonymous) on July 18, 2009 at 2:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Our economy should not surprise anyone who voted in the last election. Democrats were elected and they have always been the tax and spend nuts. What is making it worse is that now they know many of them will be sent home in the 2010 elections, so they have to hurry up and get all these bills through even when their own committees tell them they are bad.
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