DOR: 1% meal and beverage tax collections total $2.1M in Sept.

ALLOCATION OF THE 1 percent meal and beverage tax for September totaled $2.1 million. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRIS RATCLIFFE

PROVIDENCE – Allocation of the local 1 percent meal and beverage tax totaled $2.1 million in September, a 19.2 percent decline year over year from $2.6 million one year prior, primarily due to a $535,923 transfer to sales and use tax collections, according to the R.I. Department of Revenue Wednesday.

The report noted that Providence’s entire collection of the meal and beverage tax was transferred to sales and use tax collections for September, due to prior period audits, accounting for the majority of the $535,923 transfer. Without the transfer, 1 percent meal and beverage tax collections would have increased 1.7 percent year over year to $2.6 million, the DOR said.

The Providence collection, if counted as meal and beverage tax collections, was the largest collection of any municipality in the state for September, followed by Newport at $313,189. The largest nominal increase in year-over-year collections occurred in Warwick, rising $15,559 to $263,377.

Fiscal year to date in September, collections of the 1 percent meal and beverage tax totaled $8 million, an 8.7 percent decline from $8.7 million the year before. Much of the decline can also be attributed to the September transfer of the $535,923 to sales and use tax.

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