Staff report
For a third straight month, sales tax figures in Kyle have risen by double digits over a year’s time.
According to the March sales tax report, Kyle saw a 17.9 percent increase in sales taxes from March 2015 to March 2016, which amounted to roughly $448,000 in sales tax.
Kyle saw sales tax collections increase by 23 percent in January and 20 percent in February.
So far to date, Kyle has collected $1.6 million in sales taxes, which accounts for a 20 percent overall increase in the year-to-date amount from 2015.
Dripping Springs and Uhland also saw their sales tax collections rise by double digits for a second straight month.
Dripping Springs, which saw a 12 percent increase in sales taxes last month, had an increase of 15 perecnt in March.
Dripping Springs collected roughly $135,000 in sales taxes in March, with the city collecting $471,293 so far in 2016.
Uhland’s March sales tax numbers rose by 25 percent from last year as the city collected $13,910. Uhland has the highest year to date increase in sales taxes as the city has seen a 37 percent rise in year-to-date collections from 2015 to 2016.
Buda, however, saw sales tax figures dip from last March. While the city saw a sales tax decrease of less than one percent from March 2015, Buda still collected $396,693.
Buda has collected $1.4 milllion in sales taxes so far in 2016, but that amounts to only a two percent year-to-date increase.
County sales tax numbers rose by 15 percent from March 2015 to March 2016 as the county collected $3.2 million. So far in 2016, Hays County has collected roughly $11.4 million.
