The Department of Revenue has notified ACCG that counties have received their portion of $24.7 million in unidentifed sales taxes.  This distribution includes proceeds from the period prior to the expiration of the Department of Revenue Commissioner's authorization to distribute funds on Dec. 31, 2007 and for the period bertween May 4, 2009 and the end of July 2009.

 

A breakdown of the total by each jurisdiction is available here.  Please note that this information is listed by county code number.  All jurisdiction codes labeled "0000" refers to disbursements to the county, with the exception of the STED code, which is for the school tax.  The other jurisdiction codes are for the cities.

 

ACCG continues to wait for an opinion from the Attorney General's office on the $18 million of unidentified sales tax proceeds collected between January 1, 2008 and May 4, 2009.  The Department of Revenue is holding these funds because they were collected during the time that the original legislation had expired.

 

During the 2009 legislative session, ACCG worked to pass HB 181 which reauthorized the distribution of unidentified sales tax proceeds to local government. 

 

The legislature originally granted the Department of Revenue the power to disburse these unidentified sales tax proceeds usning a pro rata allocation to the respective governments in 1998.