State Sales Tax Hauls Rising at Faster Pace Than Pre-Pandemic

Many states saw double-digit growth in their general sales taxes last fall, rising at a faster pace than even before the pandemic, according to government data.

Georgia, Maryland, and Nevada were among the top-growing states that have a sales tax, seeing as much as 40 percentage growth in general sales tax revenue in the Sept.-Nov. 2021 period compared to the same three months in 2020, based on a Bloomberg Tax analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Comparisons from the same period in 2019 showed similarly strong growth.

Reasons for the boost vary from state to ...