Sales tax revenue: Eddy County bucks statewide trend

Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger recently announced that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the third quarter of 2020 were down 19.5% compared to the same timeframe in 2019. Taxable sales and purchases for July, August, and September of 2020 totaled $4.72 billion.

“Similar to the decline in taxable sales and purchases in the second quarter of this year, the drop in taxable...