In the latest sales tax report for June from the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC), there were five cities in Seminole County that showed a year-overyear increase in sales tax revenue and two cities saw sales tax monies decrease. June’s distribution of sales tax collections by the OTC primarily represents local tax receipts from April business. The monies reported this period represent sales from April 16-30 and estimated sales from May 1-15. The state experienced a decrease of $15.847 million in June 2020 from distributions in June 2019 as the state economy slowed down in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Collections in Seminole County totaled $814,875.52, which includes all collections from cities in the county and for the county sales tax collected over the reported period. Total county collections decreased 2% from the $831,135.68 collected over the same period in the previous year.

Bowlegs saw a decrease of 11.6% from the previous year, raising $1,986.79 in 2020 compare to $2,246.87 in 2019. The percentage loss is the largest of any city in the county.

Cromwell saw collections increase from $3,052.66 in 2019 to $3,692.61 in 2020, an increase of 21% from the previous year.

Konawa showed sales tax receipts of $28,588.03 in June, compared to $26,348.01 in 2020, an increase of $2,240.02 or 8.5%. The portion of Maud located inside Seminole County pulled in $10,200.81 in 2020 compared to $8,225.19 in the previous year. The 24% gain was the largest percentage increase for any city in the county. Sasakwa had a slight increase in sales tax revenue from June 2019, raising $1,038.59, which was $74.69 more than 2019. Seminole saw sales tax collections rise 6.2% from $446,028.73 in 2019 to $473,666.74 in June 2020. That figure represents 58.1% of the total sales tax monies collected in the county, including the Seminole County sales tax.

Wewoka experienced an 8.8% decrease in sales tax revenue from the previous year. The county seat collected $70,333.88 in 2020 after pulling in $77,145.31 in 2019.

Seminole County’s sales tax raised $225,368.07 for the reported month, which is a decrease of 15.6% from $267,125.01 in the previous year.

Nearby cities saw mixed returns when compared to previous years. Three cities saw a slight downturn in revenue while three cities received more in sales tax revenue than in the previous year.

Ada received $1.284 million from the OTC, a decrease of 3.7% from $1.334 million in June 2019. Earlsboro pulled in $13,666.01, which is a decrease of 3.8% from the $21,877.24 raised in 2019.

The city of Holdenville raised $272,918.63, a 17% increase from $233,173.81 in the previous year.

Okemah collected $112,150.51 for the month, which was more than the $104,170.32 raised in June 2019. The total represents a 7.7% increase.

Prague saw an increase of $17,558.10 in June 2020. Prague raised $109,864.77 compared to 2019’s $92,306.67. The difference represents a 19% gain, the largest percentage increase for any nearby city from the previous year.

Shawnee saw sales tax revenue fall to $1.595 million after raising $1.849 million in the preceding June, a difference of 13.7%. It was the largest percentage loss of any nearby city from 2019 to 2020.

Oklahoma’s largest cities by population saw large decreases in sales tax revenue as the economic slowdown hit the biggest cities the hardest. Oklahoma City raised $32.521 million for June 2020, a 17.7% decrease from the $39.518 raised over the same period in 2019. Tulsa pulled in $19.380 million, which was 19.4% less than the $24.058 million the city pulled in the previous year. Those tax monies represent the highest two totals for sales tax receipts in the state.

A total of four Seminole County cities also reported use tax income received for June 2020. All four cities saw an increase in use tax monies from the previous year. The county received $32,551.21 in June 2020 compared to $24,665.55 in June 2019, a 32% increase.

Konawa saw use tax revenue rise to $7,845.02, a 66.7% increase from the $4,707.24 collected in the previous year.

The portion of Maud in Seminole County pulled in $638.45 in use tax over the reporting period after receiving $458.87 in the previous year, a 39.1% increase.

Seminole’s use tax increased slightly, from $36,940.79 in 2019 to $40,293.74 in 2020, a positive change of 9.1%

Wewoka saw use tax revenue increase to $29,317.46 from $10,977.90 in the previous reporting period, a 167.1% year-over-year increase. It was the largest proportional gain for any city in the county reporting use tax.