Santa in the form of a check from the Oklahoma Tax Commission was good to the city of Henryetta this month.
The monthly sales tax distribution for December amounted to $252,881.79, a $20,000 gain from a year ago.
That finished out the calendar year for the town with $2,971,496 well ahead of the $2,816,203 received last year.
Over the past ten years, Henryetta has seen a mostly positive growth in sales tax receipts. In 2010, the 12-month total from January through December amounted to $2,447,996. As 2020 comes to an end, the town finished with $2,971,486. Most of those ten years showed monthly gains although three months, February, March and May of 2020 saw the sales tax check lower than the same time a year ago. In 2017, ten out of the 12 months posted declines.
Use tax monies, those spent primarily on online purchases, again finished out the year on a positive note.
The December use tax check amounted to $44,139 compared to $26,680 a year ago. That ten-year gain went from $97,323 in 2010 to $323,329 this year.
Dewar banked a check for $11,831, a $1,000 gain from 2019 and helped the town end on a $9,786 positive note.
Around the area, Okmulgee received $588,392, up nearly $40,000 from a year ago; Okemah $111,772, a gain from $97,789; Weleetka $12,976, down from $16,624; Morris $20,098 compared to $26,353 last year; Beggs $43,339 up from $33,389; Dustin $7,918 compared to $4,577 a year ago; Checotah $382,227 up from $380,838.
Statewide, the disbursement of $154,648,811 in sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $4,830,778 from the $159,479,589 distributed to the cities and towns in December last year.