Mixed Beverage Tax Revenue Distribution for Texas Cities and Counties

Mixed Beverage Tax revenue distributions are tracked for cities and counties in Texas. The dataset likely contains monthly or periodic reports detailing tax payments, year-to-date totals, and comparisons to prior periods. It is published by the City of Austin and appears on multiple data platforms.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly tax revenue trends using Report Period and Net Payment This Period.
• Analyzing year-over-year growth or decline using Year Percent Change and Comparable Payment Prior Year.
• Comparing cumulative revenue across fiscal years using Payment Year to Date and Prior Year Payment Year to Date.
• Identifying revenue recipients and their type (city or county) using Name and Type.
• Calculating period-to-period changes using Period Percent Change.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov suggests established importance.
• Provides detailed comparative metrics, including percent changes for periods and years.
• The dataset is actively maintained, with a last updated date of 2026-05-13.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, size, license, and author are missing or unknown across all sources.
• The Data.gov source lacks column information, reducing interoperability.
• The temporal coverage (Report Year) and exact reporting frequency (Report Period Type) are not explicitly defined.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Collection Method

Administrative reporting from mixed beverage tax permit holders.

Freshness

2026-05-13

Geography

Cities and counties within Texas