The Johnson City metro area had the third-best year-over-year sales tax collections in Tennessee in June while Kingsport-Bristol’s month-over-month collections were the best in the state. June was a good month for Tri-Cities collections, but it didn’t do much to… Read More ›
Looking at the Tri-Cities region as a single marketplace is the only way to have a handle of the local economic big picture. But there’s also benefit into a deep dive into the differences of house consumers in each of… Read More ›
The number of entrepreneurs is increasing in the Tri-Cities. So are their gross receipts. According to the Census Bureau’s latest count, there were 31,009 nonemployer businesses in the seven-county Tri-Cities region in 2017. That’s a 1.8% increase from the previous… Read More ›
May was another lackluster month for Northeast Tennessee sales tax collections. The three-county Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) almost reached the year-to-date collections growth rate for Northeast Tennessee, and its year-over-year collections were better than the state year-over-year rate… Read More ›
The Census Bureau is developing and expanding a data tool that’s intended to help businesspeople or those aspiring to start a business. Version 2.5 of a suite of service intended to provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census… Read More ›
Seasonally adjusted sales tax collections in the three-county Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) are up 0.6% so far this year while collections in the four-county Kingsport-Bristol MSA are down by 2.9%. Collections for NE Tenn’s four MSAs were up… Read More ›
March was another soft month for sales tax collections in the Johnson City metro area and the third straight month of negative year-over-year performance in the Kingsport-Bristol area. Seasonally adjusted year-over-year totals from the MTSU’ s Department of Economics and… Read More ›
