The latest sales tax year ended up being a good one for the City of Dothan with a nearly 8% increase in sales tax collections and record lodging taxes, surpassing
Based on the final sales tax report for the 2022 fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the city collected nearly $92 million in sales and use taxes, which includes the city’s 9% retail sales tax rate as well as motor vehicle, manufacturing, agriculture and alcohol taxes. The final number was more than $6.6 million over the 2021 collections – a 7.76% increase – and $15.2 million over what the city had budgeted to collect.
There were a few bumps during the fiscal year with collections in February, April and June down from same time in the previous year. Despite those months, the city still collected more than it had budgeted each month. Visit Dothan received nearly $1.8 million in revenues from the 2022 lodging tax collections and $711 more than the tourism organization received in 2019 when Hurricane Michael flooded local hotels with evacuees and storm relief organizations, said Aaron McCreight, president and CEO of Visit Dothan.
Weekday travel and hotel stays have bounced back to pre-pandemic numbers, McCreight said, with weekend hotel stays up due to more tournaments being held in the city.
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