January 29, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
DeKalb County’s local option sales tax collections for December 2023 were down from November but up from December 2022.
According to the Tennessee Department of Revenue, DeKalb County collected $168,325 in local option sales taxes in December, 2023. While it did not keep pace with the $171,014 in local option sales taxes in November, collections for December 2023 outperformed the same month in 2022 by $7,377.
Smithville’s collections for December 2023 were $392,126, an increase from $367,352 in November, and up from $361,018 in December 2022.
Alexandria’s local option sales tax collections stood at $29,672 in December, up slightly from $28,266 in November but below the $33,570 collected in December 2022.
Dowelltown’s collections for December were $3,510, a jump from $3,014 in November and just barely under the $3,585 total from December, 2022.
Collections in Liberty stood at $12,527 in December compared to $12,499 in November and just below the $13,191 collections in December 2022.
Net collections for the county and cities combined for December, 2023 were $606,162, up from $582,147 in November and significantly more than the $572,314 collections in December , 2022.
December collections reflect activity for the previous month.