The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from January business. The monies they reported this period represent sales from Jan. 16 to 31 and estimated sales from Feb. 1 to 15.

Statewide, the disbursement of $181,161,452 sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an decrease of $4,752,851 from the $176,408,601 distributed to the cities and towns in March last year. The use tax disbursement to cities and town was $33,061,015 according to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

In county returns, the counties shared in a $30,531,667 sales tax disbursement and a $6,070,714 use tax disbursement.

Eufaula’s disbursements were up 9 percent, Checotah’s 8 percent. The county’s up 10 percent.

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.