SALES TAX
San Marcos and most Hays County cities saw higher sales tax allocations compared to last year, continuing an overall upward trend in year-to-date revenue despite a few monthly declines.
The sales tax rate allocation given by the Office of the State Comptroller for the city of San Marcos is 1.5%.
The sales tax allocation for December, representing sales made in October in San Marcos, has gone up 2.36% compared to the same month last year.
The amount allocated to the city for sales made in November is $3,248,125, down from $3,173,053 for the same period in the previous year.
The amount of allocations for the entire year to date is up 0.49% from last year.
Year-to-date, the city received a total of $38,975,761 in allocations, and year-to-date for 2024 was $38,782,545.
The tax rate allocation for unincorporated Hays County is 0.5%. The allocation for December, representing sales made in October for the county, is $2,956,585, which is up 5.20% from last year in the same period last year when it received $2,810,382. The payment to the county year to date is $34,039,519, which is up 5.66% from last year. In 2024, Hays County received $32,214,961 for the year by this time. Almost all of the cities in Hays County — except Buda, Mountain City and Wimberley — are up from last year for this tax allocation period, and every city in the county is up for the year-to-date allocations.
Here’s how the rest of the county’s municipalities fared:
• Buda: Monthly allocation is $1,213,593, down 1.09%. Year-todate total is $13,309,232, up 2.49%.
• Dripping Springs: Monthly allocation is $426,771, up 4.31%. Year-to-date total is $4,992,177, up 5.36%.
• Hays City: Monthly allocation is $3,875, up 110.04%. Year-to-date total is $53,188, up 54.26%
• Kyle: Monthly allocation is $1,579,072, up 8.72%. Year-to-date total is $19,480,628, up 7.55%
• Mountain City: Monthly allocation is $2,309, down 31.72%. Year-to-date total is $36,845, up 3.51%
• Niederwald: Monthly allocation is $17,183, up 2.06%. Year-to-date total is $222,140, up 17.18%.
• Uhland: Monthly allocation is $87,966, up 79.69%. Year-to-date total is $1,113,360, up 91.7%
• Wimberley: Monthly allocation is $131,601, down 4.07%. Year-todate total is $1,672,176, up 7.02%.
• Woodcreek: Monthly allocation is $10,192, up 25.45%. Year-to-date total is $115,323, up 8.64%.
Buda, Kyle, Uhland and San Marcos have a sales tax rate of 1.5%. The sales tax rate in Dripping Springs is 1.25%, and it is 1% in Hays City, Mountain City, Niederwald, Wimberley and Woodcreek.
