One budget official estimates that sales tax collections are $100 million below projections and could fall $550 million short when the fiscal year ends in two months. Eva DeLuna Castro of the nonpartisan Center for Public Policy Priorities says weak consumer spending is the cause of the shortfall.
Sales tax payments to local cities and counties also declined 8.8 percent for July to $426.7 million. The payments were based on May sales.
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