Outside the city, Westchester County saw a 2.59 percent decline, while Rockland was largely flat and Putnam saw a 3.15 percent drop from the front half of 2014.
“There has been a general downward trend in sales tax collection growth over the last several years and that is continuing in 2015,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “The slow growth in sales taxes could pose fiscal challenges for local governments across New York, especially for counties who rely heavily on sales tax collections to pay their bills.”
DiNapoli’s report is below. The individual county and city collections can be found here.
Local Sales Tax Collection Table 0715
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Paul Feiner
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