Year-to-date figures for Hawkins still trail last year after six months. The city has received sales tax returns of $114,665.49 compared with $119,541.34, through June 2009. Five of the six other Wood County municipalities reflect y-t-d negative returns as well as tax collections from businesses in the unincorporated areas of the county. Only Yantis shows positive comparisons month-to-month and year-to-year.
The sales tax funds are collected by local merchants, sent to the Texas Comptroller along with the state's six and-a-quarter cents tax on each dollar of retail purchase. Hawkins' local portion-one-and-one-half cents/dollar-is then returned two months later (April retailer collections returned in June). Merchants in the unincorporated county areas collect a half-cent sales tax on each dollar sale with the local portion going into the county's general fund.
June's receipts of $16,791.24 for the City of Hawkins are distributed to the two budgets supported by the sales tax, with approximately $11,194.16 deposited into the city's general fund and the remaining $5,597.08 representing a half-cent sales tax, into the Hawkins Community Development Corporation budget.
Comparative figures for sales tax returns for the month of June (as collected in Apri) for each city and the county follow with commentary furnished by Gary McKinley, executive director of the Wood County Industrial Commission:
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