General 2% Sales and Use Tax Report

Recurring sales and use tax collections for the month of January 2019, as compared to January 2018, reflected a 2.74% increase for the City and Parish combined.  

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


          2015
           2016
          2017
           2018
        2019
January
$  14,253,540
$  14,222,692
$  16,466,351
$  14,860,712
$  15,268,349
February
    14,339,725
    14,521,035
    15,392,319
14,211,464

March
    16,369,134
    16,514,300
    17,951,747
17,052,962

April
    14,890,526
    15,182,080
    16,102,966
   15,531,496
May
    15,129,367
    14,871,157
    16,294,327
16,505,356

June
    15,910,648
    15,636,278
    16,179,384
   16,170,067

July
    15,412,452
    14,077,670
    15,275,579
   15,665,501

August
    15,012,162
    14,969,446
    15,895,597
   16,580,061

September
    15,807,029
    18,490,623
    16,151,856
   15,581,496

October
    15,296,148
    18,934,859
    15,676,429
   16,221,623

November
    14,749,100
    18,052,345
    15,720,555
  16,006,116

December
    17,838,129
    19,972,075
    17,757,555
     17,728,931
                     
Total
$185,007,960
$195,444,560
$194,864,665
$192,115,785
$15,268,349
Yearly Incr./
Decrease
    $4,967,095
    $10,436,600
  -$579,895
     -$2,748,880

$407,637
Percentage
2.76%
5.64%
-0.30%
-1.41%
2.74%

Other Sales and Use Tax Reports

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.