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Jack Joyce of Marble Falls loads construction material into a trailer Dec. 23 at Home Depot. Purchase like his helped contribute to improving sales tax figures for the city. Connie Swinney/The Highlander -
Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation reported that analysis show building material sales contributed to an overall increase of sales tax allocations of approximately 5.35 percent. Connie Swinney/The Highlander
While a pandemic may have hurt some areas of the economy, it did not slow down sales tax collections in Marble Falls, which set a record this year by eclipsing $10 million in sales tax allocations and $500 million in total taxable sales for the first time ever.
A closer look at the numbers reveals December’s allocation based on sales made in October by businesses that report tax monthly — was…