City sales tax payment is up 8% for June

For the second month in a row, the City of Perryton’s sales tax payment increased.

For July, the city received $199,714, over 8% higher than its payment in July 2020. For the year, the city is slightly behind 2020, 4.5%, with $1.48 million so far.

Several area cities also had increases in their July payment.

Amarillo received a payment of around $7.3 million, up 16% from last July. For the year so fa…