{"id":108524,"date":"2016-10-05T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108524"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T15:34:33","slug":"local-taxable-sales-purchase-up-2nd-quarter-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108524","title":{"rendered":"Local taxable sales, purchase up, 2nd quarter 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92545\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"calculator\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Taxable sales and purchases in North Dakota during April, May and June dropped nearly 26 percent from the second quarter of 2015, to just under $4.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAW&#8217;-shuhn-bur-gur) cites the oil industry slump and low farm commodity prices for the decrease.<\/p>\n<p>He says taxable sales in the state &#8220;are still returning to pre-oil boom levels,&#8221; and that $4.4 billion is close to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Taxable sales and purchases are a key indicator of economic activity in the state. Only two of North Dakota&#8217;s 15 economic sectors grew during the second quarter. The mining and oil extraction sector had the biggest drop for the quarter, with a $581 million decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Regional Taxable Sales and Purchase in the Second Quarter of 2016 compared to the Second Quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown $69,068,518\u00a0 an increase of 9.98%\u00a0 Manufacturing up 50%<\/p>\n<p>Stutsman County $71,379,926 and increase of 9.07%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carrington\u00a0 $11,091, 004 a decrease of 17.02%<\/p>\n<p>Foster County $11,333, 220 a decrease of 16.32%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valley City $16,925,762 a decrease of 10.22%<\/p>\n<p>Barnes County $17,596,639 a decrease of 13.35%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Taxable sales and purchases in North Dakota during April, May and June dropped nearly 26 percent from the second quarter of 2015, to just under $4.4 billion. Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAW&#8217;-shuhn-bur-gur) cites the oil industry slump and low farm commodity prices for the decrease. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108553,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108524\/revisions\/108553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}