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State’s reopening hiked local sales tax revenues
Buda, Business, Dripping Springs, Hays County, Kyle, News, San Marcos, Wimberley
amiller, on July 29, 2020
State’s reopening hiked local sales tax revenues

By Anita Miller

Whether it was “too early” or not, the reopening of the Texas economy in May has lead to healthy sales tax rebates for a number of Hays County communities — though that trend didn’t prevail throughout the state.

Here’s the city by city breakdown (all annual percent increases are YTD compared to 2019):

• Buda: July allocation is $656,105.70, up 2.86% from a year ago. So far this year, Buda has been allocated $4,670,643.90, an increase of 9.28% .

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