Sales tax up overall but vary widely by region

... fared well include: Genesee County (8.5 percent); Niagara County (7.8 percent); Essex County (6.6 percent); Suffolk County (6.2 percent); and Westchester County (5.8 percent). By contrast, collections declined by 3.3 percent in New York's Southern ...

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