Article: CITY SALES TAX COLLECTIONS DOWN MONTH-IN-ROW / FROM YEAR AGO FIGURES

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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