City’s sales tax payment takes 11% hit in August

The City of Perryton’s sales tax check continued to travel south, with the August payment showing an almost 11% decrease.

For August, the city received a payment of $263,648, bringing its year to date payments to $1.8 million, down 12.6% from 2019.

Most of the other cities around the area notched increases in their August payment.

Spearman’s payment of $64,048 was up a little over 21% and for the yea…