The Department of Taxation and Finance administers the statewide New York State general retail sales and compensating use tax, as well as any general retail sales and compensating use tax imposed by a county or municipality in New York State. In addition, the Department administers any taxes imposed on consumer utilities services and other special taxes on selected commodities and services by municipalities and city school districts. This data set presents information on the yearly amount of the distribution of these taxes back to the appropriate taxing jurisdictions from fiscal years ended March 31, 1995.

These statistics come from more than three million data items reported on about 250,000 sales tax returns filed quarterly and on about 300,000 returns filed annually. The dataset categorizes quarterly sales and purchases data by industry group using the North American Industry Classification System. The status of data will change as preliminary data becomes final.

Reported taxable sales and purchases of motor fuel and highway diesel fuel subject to the State sales tax, the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District sales tax, each county’s sales tax, and the New York City sales tax.