SILOAM SPRINGS -- Siloam Springs sales tax receipts were up 21.12% or $160,711.77 in June compared to the same month last year.
Sales tax receipts were $921,479 last month compared to $760,767 in June of 2020, according to the July issue of City & Town magazine. The receipts represent sales made in March.
Siloam Springs' share of county sales tax receipts were up 43.79% or $127,894 last month from $292,040 in June of 2020 to $419,934 in 2021.
City sales tax receipts are used for utility infrastructure, repayment of wastewater treatment plant bonds, the city's general fund, public safety and the street department.
A share of county sales tax receipts pays on two water utility infrastructure bonds.
Other local cities that saw an increase in sales tax were:
• Bentonville up 74% or $1,728,325.
• Eureka Springs up 154.27% or $180,132.
• Fayetteville up 39.87% or $1,326,190.
• Gentry up 8.92% or $10,951.
• Lincoln up 63.02% or $33,461.
• Rogers up 40.55% or $1,136,533.
• Springdale up 14.93% or $428,265.