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Aurora sales-tax receipts jump in April but budget gap remains
Summary
City finance staff reported a 9.3% increase in April sales-tax collections driven by electronics and auto sales, narrowing but not eliminating a larger multi‑year budget shortfall.
Aurora City Council finance staff reported that sales-tax collections for April 2025 totaled $26.8 million, an increase of $2.3 million (9.3%) compared with April 2024. Bill Levine of the budget office said electronics and computer sales rose 35.8% and auto dealership sales rose 22.5% compared with last April.
The jump also reflected an almost 94% year-over-year increase in collections from a tracked group of variable sales taxpayers, Levine said, reporting…
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