Local sales tax collections increase in third quarter

Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced Wednesday, Dec. 26 that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the third quarter of 2018 increased. Taxable sales and purchases for July, August and September of 2018 were nearly $5.61 billion, an 18.17 percent increase over those months in 2017.

“With the highest percent year-over-year increase since the third quarter of 2012, this is...