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Article: CITY SALES TAX COLLECTIONS DOWN MONTH-IN-ROW / FROM YEAR AGO FIGURES
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 27, 1987
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For the second straight month, sales tax collections in April came
within a whisker of matching year ago collections in corporate
Oklahoma City, but didn't quite make it.
Instead, collections in the corporate city on April business
were down from a year ago for the 27th straight month - starting
with February 1985, according to an Oklahoma Tax Commission report.
They reached $6.42 million, down 0.51 percent from $6.46 million
in April 1986. That was slightly better than March, when collections
were down just 0.65 percent from a year ago to $6.38 million.
For the metropolitan area of Oklahoma City as a whole and the
statewide collections, the picture was even dimmer.
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