Texas State Comptroller Susan Combs released April sale tax allocation numbers this week reflecting February sales with Brownwood declining slightly on the month by less than 1% compared to the same month last year.

The City of Early was up almost 25%, Bangs grew more than 8% and Blanket was up more than 4% as compared to the same month last year.  All Brown County cities are up in sales tax collections so far this year.

Combs will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts their April local sales tax allocations totaling $554.5 million, up 6.2 percent compared to April 2013

“The growth in sales tax revenues was led by business spending in the oil and natural gas mining, wholesale trade and construction sectors,” Combs said. “Collections from restaurants were also strong. This marks 48 consecutive months of growth in state sales tax collections.”

See the tax allocation breakdown for Brown County cities below.