Sales tax revenue down from 2007

Sales tax receipts for Cape Girardeau County declined sharply with the July payment from the state, leaving general revenue funds for the year 2.4 percent below the amount received through the same period in 2007.

The July payment, representing sales tax collections reported to the Missouri Department of Revenue in June, was $529,500, a 7.2 percent decline from the $571,171 received in July 2007. Overall during the first seven months of the year, the county has received $3.24 million in general revenue sales taxes, compared to $3.32 million in the same seven months of 2007.

The figures for the most part do not reflect spending from government-issued stimulus checks because sales tax payments to the state typically occur several weeks after the taxable sales occur.