Crawford County Sales Tax Up Again For March

Crawford County’s general revenue sales nudged up again for March.

The county finished with a 4.8 percent year-over-year increase, tallying $232,313.86. Last year, the county collected $221,508.96 for March.

Sales tax has been up four straight months.

Crawford County has amassed $883,183.61 to start 2023. At this point in 2022, the county had collected $784,569.

The collection was up 3.5 percent for December, 26.6 percent for January and 19.9 percent for February.

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The capital improvement and law enforcement sales taxes are separate.

Both taxes were slightly up for March at 2.3 percent.

The tax collected $107,819.54 for each fund.

Last year, the county brought in $105,318.59 for March.

The taxes have been up 2.2 percent for December, 26.4 percent for January, and 22 percent for February.

So far this year, each fund has collected $417,997.56.

State

State Budget Director Dan Haug said net general revenue collections for March 2023 increased 3.5 percent compared to those for March 2022, from $926.9 million last year to $959.7 million this year.

Net general revenue collections for 2023 fiscal year-to-date increased 11.9 percent compared to March 2022, from 8.29 billion last year to $9.27 billion this year.