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Ulster County comptroller reports sales tax decline, cannabis-payment uncertainty and audit windfall
Summary
The county comptroller presented monthly financials showing a 2.46% year-over-year sales tax decline year-to-date, uncertain cannabis tax payments, $2.2 million in occupancy tax receipts and audit work that recovered nearly $200,000 for the county.
Ulster County Comptroller Gallagher told the Ways and Means Committee on June 12 that year-to-date sales tax receipts through April totaled $57,600,000, a 2.46% decline from the same period last year. The comptroller said April's figures improved from larger declines reported earlier in the year.
Gallagher said cannabis-tax receipts were unclear because the county received a $96,760 payment for the first quarter in April and another $190,000 payment on May 28 that the comptroller's office has not yet…
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