General 2% Sales and Use Tax Report

Recurring sales and use tax collections for the month of February 2023, as compared to February 2022, reflected a 5.16% increase for the City and Parish combined.  Year-to-date collections reflect a 3.33% increase.      

Historical information relative to sales and use tax collections is presented below.

RECURRING SALES TAX COLLECTIONS

For the Five Year Period 2019 - 2023
2% General Fund Tax


                   2019            2020             2021                  2022
               2023
January $ 15,268,349
$ 16,190,187$  15,934,495
$18,726,073
$19,030,460
February 14,752,844   15,180,88414,737,346
17,499,204
18,402,435
March    17,264,312  15,989,46719,743,23121,369,875
April     15,888,383  12,992,51218,461,102
21,127,971

May    16,545,597  14,798,867 18,059,89520,499,661
June   15,932,751 17,079,04419,830,52521,323,405
July    15,932,632 16,486,85318,701,987
19,844,518

August   16,684,480    16,236,15717,846,83020,335,290
September  16,517,068   17,572,99820,000,353
20,494,517

October   16,865,696   16,833,29120,058,61920,656,777
November
    16,008,473
    16,368,66619,482,02519,908,791

December
               17,751,593
   19,010,537
         22,666,510
22,501,061

Total
    $195,412,178
 $194,739,463$225,522,918$244,287,143$37,432,895
Yearly Increase/
Decrease
  $3,296,393   -$672,715 $30,783,455
$18,764,225

$1,207,618
Percentage1.72%-0.34%15.81%8.32%
3.33%


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Note 1 - The above report represents a customized presentation of "recurring" sales and use tax collections for use primarily by the management of City-Parish Government for various purposes including revenue forecasting.  Amounts set forth are unaudited.  They may not include certain non-recurring transactions such as those related to tax audits, or year-end audit adjustments, which could distort comparisons.

Note 2 - Since this is a customized report for special purposes as explained in Note 1 above, the monthly and annual totals in the report will generally be different than totals reflected in accounting records.