I'm Surprised

The Springfield paper had an article today about total taxable sales by ZIP code . I had never thought about checking this out. I checked the records for Iron and Reynolds county on the Department of Revenue web site. What surprised me is that when you compare the first quarter, when there are no tourists here with the third quarter when we seem to be covered up that there was not that great an increase in taxable sales. For Iron county the increase was $2,226,000 and for Reynolds county the difference was $2,697,000. I sure would have thought that all the folks visiting here would have left more money on the counter. Wonder if everyone is collecting sales taxes?