A look at both the city of Perryville as well as Perry County’s sales tax revenue amounts for January through March shows receipts are up more than 6 percent for the county while the city is showing a drop of about a half percent decrease for the first three months of 2021.
For the city of Perryville, both January and February 2021, the sales tax amounts surpassed the total collected in those months a year ago. January 2021 revenue for sales tax was $138,788.54, up $6,565.14, or about 4.96 percent from the $132,223.40 reported in January 2020. For February 2021, the city received a projected $179,543 in sales tax revenue, which was up $12,231.41, or about 7.31 percent from the February 2020 tally of $167,311.59.
In March 2021, the most recent month for which data is available, the revenue estimate lagged a little from the previous year, at $131,560.44. This was down $21,106.05, or about 13.82 percent from the March 2020 amount of $152,666.49.
Overall, for the first quarter of 2021, the city received $449,891.98, which was down $2,309.50, or about 0.51 percent from the 2020 first quarter figure of $452,201.48.
