DALLAS – Local sales tax collections fell 0.7% across Texas in January, with steeper drops in the state's oil and gas producing and processing regions, state Comptroller Glenn Hegar reported.
"Energy-centric cities such as Odessa, Midland, Corpus Christi and Houston continued to see decreases in sales tax allocation," Hegar said. "Other areas of the state helped to somewhat offset those losses as cities such as San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas saw moderate increases in allocations."
The report issued Feb. 10 accounts for sales in the month of December, tabulated in January and distributed in February.
Houston, the state's largest city and the nation's energy hub, saw sales tax revenue fall 7.55% to $67.6 million.
San Antonio, the state's second-largest city and second largest sales-tax producer saw revenue rise 4.68% to $36.3 million.
Dallas revenues rose 1.5% to $30.1 million. But one of the city's wealthiest suburbs, Plano, experienced a 10.6% drop in revenue, the second-largest among the top 20 cities.
Corpus Christi took the biggest hit among the top 20, falling 12% to $7.7 million. Midland, in the heart of the oil producing Permian Basin recorded a 10.2% drop in sales taxes.
Hegar's local report comes a week after the sales tax revenue figures for the state government. In 2016, Hegar has separated the two.
State sales tax revenue in January totaled $2.47 billion, down 4% compared to January 2015.
