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 to 31 and estimated sales from Sept. 1 to 15.

Statewide, the disbursement of $204,834,030 in sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected a decrease of $2,526,092 from the $207,360,122 distributed to the cities and towns in September last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $35,006,923 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $33,626,890 sales tax disbursement and a $6,574,060 use tax disbursement.

The chart below compares city sales taxes and taxable sales in area cities, towns and counties as well as a comparison for the same period in 2023. Taxable Sales are calculated by dividing the tax collected by the tax rate and it shows a rough estimate of retail sales activity.