GF Sales Tax sees continued growth

Grand Forks sales tax collections topped the $2.6 million dollar mark in November. The latest payment pushes the year-to-date total to over $28.5 million dollars – or 9.4% above the 2021 tally.
The local tax has topped the two-million dollar mark nine times in 2022 – with two of those months exceeding the three-million dollar mark.
In looking to the one-quarter percent restaurant/lodging component of the tax over $40,000 dollars was collected. A 12-month look at this portion of the tax shows it is up 19.32%.

SALES TAX
2022
January 24    2,244,139.41         $2,244,139.41$       -1.42%
February     22 3,316,886.22      $ 5,561,025.63$      33.84%
March 21    1,955,378.75              $ 7,516,404.38$      19.08%
April 22    1,960,943.66             $ 9,477,348.04$ 8.39%
May 20    2,172,511.39              $ 11,649,859.43$     3.54%
June 21    2,999,234.50             $ 14,649,093.93$   12.67%
July 22    2,668,354.88             $ 17,317,448.81$    7.58%
August 19    2,343,305.08        $ 19,660,753.89$    5.22%
September 22    3,459,914.99      $ 23,120,668.88$    9.19%
October 21    2,834,543.03         $ 25,955,211.91$    9.70%
November 22    2,607,248.33       $ 28,562,460.24$    9.40%