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Aurora reports 3% drop in August sales tax collections, staff cites a strong August 2024 baseline
Summary
City budget staff reported August 2025 sales tax collections of $25.2 million, about 3% below August 2024; variable sales tax and nine of 15 sectors showed declines, while staff stressed last year's unusually large one-time payments made comparisons difficult.
Bill Levine, budget office analyst for the city of Aurora, reported to the committee that August 2025 sales tax collections totaled $25,200,000, about $800,000 (roughly 3%) less than what the city collected in August 2024.
Levine said the comparison is skewed by an unusually strong August 2024 that included large one-time business-to-business payments and a particularly high utilities month. "If you look a year back to August 2024 ... we had about a 75% increase in August 2024," Levine said, adding…
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