Texas Comptroller Susan Combs in December said the state collected $1.70 billion in sales tax in November, down 14.4 percent compared to November 2008.

“Sales tax collections, declining since February 2009, continued to be weak in November,” Combs said. “Compared to a year ago, sales tax collections were down across all major sectors of the Texas economy, including oil and natural gas production, construction, manufacturing and retail trade.”

The comptroller sent cities, counties, special purpose districts and transit systems $417.1 million in December sales tax allocations, down 14.6 percent compared to last December. The final sales tax allocation of 2009 brought local sales tax revenue for the year to $5.6 billion, 5.1 percent less than in 2008.

The city of Pflugerville received a $346,211 sales tax allocation in December, down 0.27 percent from the same month a year earlier.

For 2009, the city received $4.79 million in sales tax allocations, compared to $4.17 million the previous calendar year. That marked a 14.76 percent calendar year increase.

November state sales tax collections and December sales tax allocations to local governments represent sales that occurred in October.

For details of December sales tax payments to individual cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts, locate the Monthly Sales and Use Tax Allocation Comparison Summary Reports on the Comptroller’s Web site at window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/allocsum/compsum.html.

The next local sales tax allocation will be made on Friday, Jan.8.