The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from September business. The monies they reported this period represent sales from Sept. 16 to 30 and estimated sales from Oct. 1 to 15.
Statewide, the disbursement of $207,851,500 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an decrease of $17,158,965 from the $190,692,535 distributed to the cities and towns in November last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $35,651,131 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
In county returns, the counties shared in a $37,328,105 sales tax disbursement and a $7,293,808 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 2024. Taxable Sales are calculated by dividing the tax collected by the tax rate and it shows a rough estimate of retail sales activity.
