June was a positive month for sales and use tax collections in St. Mary Parish. Collections totaled $2.97 million in June, up 8.2 percent from the $2.74 million collected during June 2017. Without collections made as a result of financial audits, collections rose 5.2 percent. Audits brought in $83,660 in June and $3,100 in the same month of the prior year. The parish’s hotel sales tax brought in $36,720 in June, an 11.1 percent decrease from the $41,295 collected in June 2017. “We’ve seen some ups and downs this year thus far,” Parish Sales and Use Tax Director Jeff LaGrange ...