Howe's sales tax still strong

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced recently that he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $705.3 million in local sales tax allocations for April, 8 4 percent more than in April 2018 These allocations are based on sales made in February by businesses that report tax monthly.

The City of Howe is coming off back-to-back months of recordbreaking figures to indicate that local spending is at an all-time high in Howe For the month of April, how will receive $25,085 which is down significantly from the previous two months, but still the most for any April month in the city's history The April total is up 4 53 percent from a year ago and the 2019 total of $131,128 shows an increase of 17 76 percent from this time in 2018