Tax receipts up in September

Siloam Springs sales tax receipts were up $83,282 in September compared to the same month last year.

Sales tax receipts were $646,441 in September of 2016, compared to $563,159 in September of the previous year, according to the October issue of City & Town Magazine.

County sales tax receipts were up $18,408 from $234,871 in September of 2015 to $253,278 in September of 2016.

The city’s sales tax receipts come from its 2 percent sales tax. The total sales tax rate in Siloam Springs is 9.5 percent.

City sales tax receipts are used for utility infrastructure, repayment of wastewater treatment plant bonds, the city’s general fund, public safety and the street department.

A share of county sales tax receipts pays on two water utility infrastructure bonds.

Other cities that saw an increase in city sales tax receipts were:

• Bentonville, up $248,551 to $1.96 million

• Eureka Springs, up $64,983 to $330,037

• Fayetteville, up $183,352 to $3.46 million

• Lincoln, up $672 to $42,586

• Rogers, up $272,386 to $2.9 million

• Springdale, up $241,229 to $2.4 million.

Cities that saw a decrease in city sales tax receipts were:

• Gentry, down $1,037 to $48,212.