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Lubbock County sees a 11.43% increase in June Sales Tax revenue from this time last year. The State of Texas is up 15.2% from June 2011 to June 2012.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that a listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard as a threatened or endangered species is not warranted.

Three men who conspired to steal $290,000 worth of aviation fuel from Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso have been sentenced to federal prison and another sentenced to federal probation.

The Texas Comptroller’s Office today announced monthly sales tax distributions for Texas municipalities totaling $514 million. State sales tax revenue in May was $2.09 billion, up 7.3 percent compared to May of last year.

$633 million will be sent to cities, counties, transit systems, and special purpose taxing districts, up 5.5 percent from May of 2011.

The group will specifically focus on online activities, and plans to research solutions to identity and mitigate current and future risks to children’s identities.

If the lizard is listed as an endangered species, it could limit oil field production in West Texas and eastern New Mexico for two to five years.

The e-business will begin to collect and remit Texas sales tax on July 1st of this year, and the agreement settles all sales tax issues between Texas and Amazon.

State sales tax revenue for March was $1.87 billion, up 16.9 percent compared to March 2011.

Seminars will be conducted across Texas to help taxpayers learn how to properly fill out tax forms, file, and pay taxes electronically.