Second quarter tax receipts remain below 2010 numbers

RBC I The town of Meeker bore the brunt of a reduction in sales and use tax receipts for the second quarter of 2011, reporting a 32.9 percent reduction from $406,357 in the same period in 2010, to $272,677 in 2011. The county’s sales and use tax numbers were also down, from $1,218,960 to $977,924, a 19.8 percent drop from last year’s second quarter. Only the town of Rangely recorded an increase in sales and…