RAPID CITY, SD—Fast Metropolis’s gross sales tax receipts for December totaled a file $3.63 million, bringing the 2021 complete to greater than $36 million. This marks a 19 % enhance over complete gross sales tax receipts acquired in the course of the earlier file file 12 months, 2020.
December’s complete of gross sales tax receipts was the fifth time in 2021 the place the Metropolis surpassed $3 million in month-to-month receipts, and the sixth time in 13 months.
The month-to-month gross sales tax report will likely be acknowledged on the agenda at Wednesday’s Metropolis Authorized and Finance Committee assembly, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. in Metropolis Corridor’s Council Chambers.
“We have been desirous to see the December totals and with occasions just like the Lakota Nation Invitational, the numbers didn’t disappoint,” mentioned Metropolis Finance Director Pauline Sumption. “It was an amazing 12 months for the native financial system and that was mirrored on many fronts, from will increase in tourism numbers to constructing allow valuation and total spending locally.”
The Metropolis’s complete of $36.085 million was practically 20 % greater than the $30.321 million in gross sales tax receipts from 2020.