OKLAHOMA CITY – Revenue collections for Fiscal Year 2010 showed the biggest
decrease in state history, State Treasurer Scott Meacham said today as reports on collections for
the year were released. However, Meacham said the news is not all bad. “While the global
recession hit Oklahoma very hard during the recently completed fiscal year, all signs point
toward better times ahead.”
Preliminary reports show General Revenue Fund collections for Fiscal Year 2010 were
$4.6 billion. That amount is:
• $945 million or 17 percent below the prior year; and
• $815.7 million or 15.1 percent below the official estimate.
Toughest Fiscal Year on Record
“The effects of the global recession were felt strongly in Oklahoma during the fiscal
year,” Meacham said. “A drop of $945 million or 17 percent in collections from the prior year
illustrates the intensity of the historical downturn Oklahoma’s economy experienced.”
Meacham said Oklahoma experienced the worst of the recession during the first half of
the fiscal year, while numbers started improving during the last half of the fiscal year.
“We felt the recession the most during the fiscal year’s first six months,” he said. “After
December, we started to see improvements, which continued through this month, especially in
gross production, sales and motor vehicle tax collections.”
Meacham said that while income tax collections remain below the prior year and
estimate, those numbers appear to be driven primarily by a slight reduction in individual
estimated payments.
Brighter Picture Ahead
Meacham said the coming fiscal year promises to be brighter.
“The worst is definitely behind us. The coming fiscal year promises to be much better as
economic activity and resulting state revenue collections have begun to show improvement,” he
said.
At the start of the fiscal year, a total of $167.7 million remains after agency allocations
are made for the month. A total of $120 million will be transferred to the Special Cash Fund and
$47.7 million will remain in the Cash Flow Reserve Fund for any coming months when
collections may fall short of monthly allocation requirements.
Fiscal Year Collections
For the fiscal year, net income taxes, a combination of personal and corporate income
taxes, produced $1.86 billion, which is $403.4 million or 17.7 percent below the prior year and
$475.5 million or 20.2 percent below the estimate.
Personal income tax produced $1.7 billion, which is $305.5 million or 15.2 percent below
the prior year and $336 million or 16.4 percent below the estimate. Corporate income tax
produced $167.7 million, which is $97.9 million or 36.9 percent below the prior year and $139.6
million or 45.4 percent below the estimate.
The state sales tax produced $1.52 billion for the year, which is $130.9 million or 7.9
percent below the prior year and $238.3 million or 13.6 percent below the estimate.
The gross production tax on oil and natural gas yielded $444.4 million for the year, which
is $282.9 million or 38.9 percent below the prior year but $16.9 million or 3.9 percent above the
estimate.
Motor vehicle taxes produced $147.3 million in the fiscal year, which is $28.6 million or
16.2 percent below the prior year but $5.8 million or 4.1 percent above the estimate.
Investments by the treasurer’s office yielded $120 million. That is $37.2 million below
the prior year.
Other revenue, including investment earnings along with taxes on insurance, alcoholic
beverages and others produced $616.4 million for the year. This is $99.3 million or 13.9 percent
below the prior year and $124.6 million or 16.8 percent below the estimate.
June Collections
Preliminary reports show General Revenue Fund collections for June were $477.4
million. That amount is:
• $10 million or 2.1 percent above the prior year; but
• $34.8 million or 6.8 percent below the official estimate.
In June, net income taxes, a combination of personal and corporate income taxes,
produced $217.2 million, which is $3.4 million or 1.6 percent below the prior year and $55.6
million or 20.4 percent below the estimate.
In June, personal income tax produced $179.8 million, which is $6.2 million or 3.3
percent below the prior year and $52.9 million or 22.7 percent below the estimate. Corporate
income tax produced $37.4 million, which is $2.7 million or 7.9 percent above the prior year but
$2.7 million or 6.8 percent below the estimate.
The state sales tax produced $135.2 million for the month, which is $5.7 million or 4.4
percent above the prior year but $2.8 million or 2 percent below the estimate.
The gross production tax on oil and natural gas yielded $51.4 million for the month,
which is $29.6 million or 135.9 percent above the prior year and $42.8 million or 500.4 percent
above the estimate.
Motor vehicle taxes produced $19.1 million in June, which is $4.6 million or 31.9 percent
above the prior year and $7.4 million or 63.9 percent above the estimate.
In June, investments by the treasurer’s office yielded $7.7 million. That is $1.9 million
below the same month of the prior year.
Other revenue, including investment earnings along with taxes on insurance, alcoholic
beverages and others produced $54.6 million for the month. This is $26.5 million or 32.7 percent
below the prior year and $26.7 million or 32.8 percent below the estimate.
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For more information contact: Tim Allen, Deputy Treasurer for Policy and Administration, (405) 522-4212
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