By Anita Miller Whether it was “too early” or not, the reopening of the Texas economy in May has lead to healthy sales tax rebates for a number of Hays County communities — though that trend didn’t prevail throughout the state. Here’s the city by city breakdown (all annual percent increases are YTD ...

More than 60 percent of voters gave the green light May 5 to a sales tax increase that could help a Dripping Springs-area emergency service district (ESD) keep pace with growth. Of the 3,220 ballots cast, 1,987 voted in favor of raising ESD No. 1’s sales tax by .5 percent, with 1,233 voting against....

The influx of growth across the Dripping Springs area could push the Hays County Emergency Services District No. 1 to potentially look at increasing its sales tax rate. Such a determination was reached after the ESD 1 commissioners approved its budget for fiscal year 2018. But according to a distric...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced earlier this month he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $779.2 million in local sales tax allocations for August, 1.3 percent more than in August 2016. Locally, smaller cities of Mountain City, Uhland and Niederwa...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced earlier this week that he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $679.9 million in local sales tax allocations for July, 9 percent more than in July 2016. These allocations are based on sales made in May by businesses ...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced earlier this month that he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $640 million in local sales tax allocations for June, 3.6 percent more than in June 2016. These allocations are based on sales made in April by business...

A 23 percent rise in sales tax collections in Buda over a year period highlighted an increase in collections county wide. Buda brought in over $400,000 in sales taxes, which adds to its $1.9 million collected so far in 2017. Kyle collected $490,000 in sales taxes last month, which added to its $2.28...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $619.7 million in local sales tax allocations for March, 5.8 percent more than in March 2016. Hays County will see $1.2 million of that total, as sales tax revenues d...

Dripping Springs saw a moderate rise in sales tax payments from February 2016 to February 2017, according the state sales tax figures. Dripping Springs has received over $350,000 to date, which is a 4% rise from 2016 figures. Meanwhile, sales tax revenue in Wimberley rose by less than 1% in the same...