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Alcoholic beverage tax nets Jonesboro $107,600.


The city of Jonesboro has collected $107,600 through September from an alcoholic beverage alcoholic beverage

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 tax that went into effect in the first part of 2007.

The money collected from the 3 percent tax on alcohol sales goes into the city's general fund and then is transferred to the Jonesboro Police Department to help support its Drug Abuse Resistance Education The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.
Please see the relevant discussion on the . This article has been tagged since September 2007.
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The city of Jonesboro started collecting the alcohol tax in May 2007. By the end of the year, the city had collected $84,000.

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 Board to serve alcohol in "dry" Craighead County.
Jonesboro Alcohol Beverage Tax Collections

                         Tax Collected   Alcohol Sales

January-September 2008      $107,592       $3,586,400
May-December 2007 *          $84,096       $2,803,200

Source: Jonesboro Collector's Office

* Including April sales for two private clubs
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Title Annotation:NE Journal: A Look at News From Northeast Arkansas
Author:Friedman, Mark
Publication:Arkansas Business
Date:Oct 13, 2008
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