HERMANN – Gasconade County’s sales taxes continues their strong performance with the April payment with all running ahead of last year’s totals through the first four months of the year.

The primary tax, the General Fund Sales Tax, produced $95,270 for the April reimbursement check from the Missouri Department of Revenue. While that’s about $5,000 less than the amount received in March, it’s a couple thousand dollars ahead of the April 2025 amount.

For the first four months, the General Fund Sales Tax, which fuels much of county government’s operations, has generated $418,443. That’s $9,838 more than was generated during the same period last year. County Treasurer Mike Feagan presented the sales tax numbers Thursday morning to the County Commission meeting at the courthouse in Hermann.

The county’s other major sales tax is the Use Tax, which is applied to purchases made from out-of-state vendors. The April Use Tax check is for $51,184, down slightly from the previous month’s amount and about $17,500 less than the amount received in April of last year. But boosted by strong amounts in January and February, the Use Tax’s four-month total of $226,885 is a healthy $18,822 more than the amount received through the first four months of 2025.

The Use Tax revenue is divided among the General Fund, the Road & Bridge Fund and the Gasconade County Sheriff’s Department, a practice that was started last year and continued this year. A portion of the Use Tax is allocated to the Gasconade County E-911 Program. Last year, the portion going to 911 amounted to about $200,000.

The half-cent Law Enforcement Sales Tax, which is split between the Sheriff’s Department and five of the county’s six municipalities, generated $62,813 for the April amount. That, also, is down from the March amount, but more than was received in April of last year. Thus far, the Law Enforcement Sales Tax has generated $286,479 for the county and $95,493 for the cities for a total amount of $381,972. Last year, the tax generated a total of $1.145 million, of which the county received $859,340 and the municipalities received $286,446.

The cities of Owensville, Hermann, Bland, Rosebud and Gasconade receive a share of the tax. The City of Morrison does not because it does not have a certified law enforcement officer.

Here is the breakdown of the monthly and year-to-date amounts received by the municipalities: Owensville – $9,631, $43,926; Hermann – $7,537, $34,377; Bland – $1,675, $7,639; Rosebud – $1,465, $6,684; Gasconade – $628, $2,864.