The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from August business. The monies they reported this period represent sales from Aug. 16-31 and estimated sales from Sept 1-15.
Statewide, the disbursement of $201,918,672 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected a decrease of $2,915,358 from the $204,834,030 distributed to the cities and towns in October last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $33,859,329 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
In county returns, the counties shared in a $35,873,558 sales tax disbursement and a $7,225,329 use tax disbursement.
The attached chart compares city sales taxes and taxable sales in area cities, towns and counties as well as a comparison for the same period in 2024. Taxable Sales are calculated by dividing the tax collected by the tax rate and it shows a rough estimate of retail sales activity.
