Aledo
October sales tax allocation to the city: $220,671, down 0.5% from a year earlier; 2026 stands at $2,221,575 through ten months, 8.7% ahead of 2025
The October 2026 payment is the first month of 2026 to come in below the same month of 2025. The 2026 total through October, $2,221,575, is the highest ten-month total in the Comptroller's series, which begins in 2013; the same months of 2025 totaled $2,043,811. Calendar 2025 closed at $2,506,603.
Published Monday, October 12, 2026, by The Aledo Ledger. Publisher: Christopher Weaver.
The Comptroller's October 2026 sales tax allocation to the City of Aledo was $220,670.83, against $221,768.36 in October 2025, a decrease of 0.5% by the Ledger's arithmetic on the Comptroller's figures. The Comptroller's dataset gives the year-to-date total through October as $2,221,574.70; the same ten months of 2025 totaled $2,043,810.94, so the year is running 8.7% ahead. No earlier year in the series, which starts in January 2013, had reached $2.2 million by October; the ten-month totals were $1,880,688 in 2024, $1,645,397 in 2023, $1,398,510 in 2022 and $1,180,148 in 2021, the Ledger's sums of the Comptroller's monthly payments.
The 2026 months, in dollars: January, 217,173; February, 270,596; March, 190,103; April, 195,956; May, 238,436; June, 217,397; July, 203,684; August, 237,039; September, 230,520; October, 220,671. Calendar 2025 closed at $2,506,603.45.
The city's fiscal year runs October through September. The allocation months of October 2025 through September 2026 total $2,685,464.74, against $2,367,146.95 for October 2024 through September 2025, an increase of 13.4%, the Ledger's arithmetic on the Comptroller's monthly payments; the October 2026 payment is the first of the new fiscal year's allocation months.
A month's allocation reflects sales made about two months earlier. The full monthly series since January 2013 is on the Ledger's sales tax page.
Sources: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: Sales Tax Allocation, City (data.texas.gov dataset vfba-b57j), Aledo; The Aledo Ledger: sales tax series
How this was sourced: Primary data: the Comptroller's city allocation dataset on data.texas.gov, pulled Oct. 12 by pipeline/fetch_sales_tax.py; the October 2026 payment was first reported in the Oct. 8 edition. Percentages, the ten-month comparisons and the fiscal-year sums are the Ledger's arithmetic on the Comptroller's monthly payment figures. Not reviewed: the Comptroller's allocation detail by rate or period, and any city-side revenue report.