FEBRUARY SALES TAX REBATES UP FOR BRENHAM & WASHINGTON CO., DOWN FOR BURTON

  

Sales and tax rebates for Brenham and Washington County were up in February, while Burton’s were down.

The county’s February rebate was $443,054, up 8.01 percent from the $410,172 it received last February.  Through two months, the county has taken in $825,839 in rebates, compared to $739,582 at this time last year, an increase of 11.66 percent.

For Brenham, this month’s rebate totaled $853,030, 3.6 percent more than its payment of $823,372 in February 2022.  So far this year, the city’s collections amount to $1,608,616, a 2.77 percent increase from this time a year ago, when the city had brought in $1,565,230.

Burton’s rebate in February was down 20.8 percent, totaling $11,624 in comparison to last February’s $14,677.  To date, the city’s allocations are $21,095, down 4.6 percent from the $22,114 it had received through February of last year. 

According to Comptroller Glenn Hegar, the state paid out $1.3 billion in local sales tax allocations in February, up 9.3 percent from last February and up 8.5 percent for the year so far.