Retail sales across Oklahoma's cities continue to improve. State sales subject to both sales and use tax are down only 5.4% year-to-date through July of 2020 vs. 2019. The gap relative to 2019 has narrowed steadily since April. July 2020…
Overall state retail results are as bad as expected at this stage of the slowdown. State sales subject to sales and use tax are down 9.8% in the March/April/May period of 2020 vs. 2019. This is fairly consistent with our…
The string of weak retail sales reports in the first four months of 2015 are not an indication of slowing overall economic activity. Instead, recent weakness in the retail data merely reflects the steep fall in sales at gasoline stations since November 2014. In our pic-of-the-week, retail sales minus gasoline station sales continues to show a very steady uptrend, even in the most recent data.
Tax Exempt Tribal Retail Sales: An Economic Assessment of the Impact on Shawnee, Oklahoma
An economic assessment of Tribal Retail activity in the Shawnee Oklahoma region. The full report is available online.
Oklahoma’s Indian tribes are becoming an increasingly important component of state and local economic development and are expanding into most industry sectors, including the traditional retail trade sectors.