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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office announced on Thursday that sales tax collections in Texas are down 6 percent from this same time last year.
According to Hegar’s office, Texas sales tax collections totaled $2.57 billion in September, down 6.1 percent from September 2019. The majority of the revenue collected in September is remitted to the Comptroller’s office in September from purchases made in August.
“The COVID-19 pandemic and low price of crude oil continue to weigh on the Texas economy and sales tax revenue,” Hegar said in a statement. “As was the case the last month, state sales tax receipts from all major sectors, other than retail trade, were down compared with the same month last year, with the steepest declines in the oil and gas-related sectors.”
According to the Comptroller’s office, the sales tax collection stream seeing the biggest hit last month was the hotel occupancy tax. Hotel occupancy tax collections totaled $34 million statewide in September 2020, down nearly 37 percent from September 2019. Other revenue totals are shown below:
motor vehicle sales and rental taxes — $454 million, up 4.3 percent from September 2019;
motor fuel taxes — $294 million, down 9.7 percent from September 2019;
oil production tax — $227 million, down 31.9 percent from September 2019;
natural gas production tax — $71 million, down 28.1 percent from September 2019;
alcoholic beverage taxes — $78 million, down 33.7 percent from September 2019.
For more information on sales tax revenue collections, visit the Texas Comptroller’s website.