January Cape Girardeau County tax funds show mixed results

Year-to-year comparisons of four Cape Girardeau County tax fund accounts show a mixed bag of results for the first month of 2023.

According to state Department of Revenue figures, Cape Girardeau County saw double-digit increases in general revenue, Proposition One and Law Enforcement/Public Safety funds, while a double-digit decline was witnessed compared to January 2022 in use-tax receipts.

Funds

• General revenue: $800,859.23 was received in January 2023, up 17.3% from the same month a year earlier.
• Proposition One: $800,859.34, up an identical 17.3% from January 2022. This tax was OK'd in an August 2006 plebiscite to provide the county with road and bridge improvement monies.
• Law Enforcement/Public Safety: $800,425.79, up 18.3% from last January, designed to aid the county sheriff's office in hiring and retaining staff, upgrade departmental equipment and underwrite jail operations. This levy is the most recent fiscal referendum OK'd by county voters, winning approval in June 2020.
• Use tax: $199,143.15, a levy on out-of-state and online activity, is down 16.2% from January 2022's $237,647.04, perhaps a further indication of strengthening sales at bricks-and-mortar retail outlets. This tax, narrowly approved by county voters in April 2015, is restricted to the current county courthouse in Jackson.

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