Sabetha’s sales tax receipts are above last year’s earnings for September. This is according to the September County/City Local Sales Tax Distribution Report released by the Kansas Department of Revenue.

The state issues these distributions two months after collection, so the September distribution is a reflection of July sales.

Sabetha saw increased sales tax distributions in the month of September alone — $39,659.69 — a 6.6 percent increase from the $37,211.62 distributed in September 2017. Sabetha’s local sales tax rate is 1 percent.

Fiscal year to date — which includes distributions of just this month, compared with distributions from September last year — Sabetha is up 4.2 percent.

With a sales tax rate of 1.5 percent, Hiawatha saw a 2.3 percent increase in distributions. Hiawatha’s distributions went up, from $83,399.79 in September 2017 to $85,294.55 in September 2018. Fiscal year to date, Hiawatha’s distributions are up 3.7 percent.

Holton’s distributions are down 1 percent, from $51,994.64 in September 2017 to $51,468.20 in September 2018. Holton’s local sales tax rate is 0.75 percent. Fiscal year to date, Holton’s distributions are up 3 percent.

With a local sales tax rate of 1 percent, Seneca’s distributions are up 1.5 percent, from $45,097.79 in September 2017 to $45,784.88 in September 2018. Fiscal year to date, Seneca’s distributions are up 1.1 percent.

County

Brown County saw a decrease in sales tax distributions for September, while Nemaha County and Jackson County saw increases.

Brown County, with a local sales tax rate of 1 percent, experienced a 3.9 percent decrease, from $97,930.61 in September 2017 to $94,158.29 in September 2018. Fiscal year to date, Brown County’s distributions are down 1.6 percent.

Nemaha County’s distributions were up 6.9 percent, from $153,813.64 in September 2017 to $164,452.39 in September 2018. Nemaha County has a local sales tax rate of 1 percent. Fiscal year to date, Nemaha County’s distributions are down 0.5 percent.

Jackson County, with a local sales tax rate of 1.4 percent, saw an increase of 3 percent — from $144,201.25 in September 2017 to $148,466.24 in September 2018. Fiscal year to date, Jackson County’s distributions are up 3.9 percent.

State

Statewide, city and county distribution totals were up — 1.1 percent — in September. Distributions totaled $81,543,958.58 in September 2018, up from the $81,595,912.01 distributed in September 2017. Fiscal year to date, statewide distributions are up 4.7 percent.