{"id":496635,"date":"2026-01-06T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:13:10","slug":"holiday-retail-sales-in-san-antonio-started-almost-flat-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496635\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday retail sales in San Antonio started almost flat in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.tpr.org\/a\/tpr-newsletter-signup?_gl=1*1qdmxfl*_ga*MjI5ODI0MTQ5LjE2NDUxMjA0MTM.*_ga_0B2CYK6231*czE3NjI1NTQ2ODUkbzM0NDMkZzEkdDE3NjI1NTQ2OTIkajUzJGwwJGgw\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPR Today<\/a>, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio retailers saw 2025 holiday shopping get off to a nearly flat start, compared to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The state comptroller&#8217;s office collects city sales taxes on behalf of cities each month and then returns them.  Those sales tax collections are a good indicator of how the local and state economies are doing.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio collected just under $41 million dollars for this past month of November, which includes the busy after-Thanksgiving Christmas shopping rush.  That&#8217;s an increase of only about 0.33% over the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In the same period of comparison, Houston and Austin both saw an increase of around 6% in sales tax collections. Only Dallas eked out a smaller increase than San Antonio at 0.29%.<\/p>\n<p>Sales tax collections for the entire month of December are needed for the complete picture of how well local retailers fared this past holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio also trailed the statewide average increase, which also stood at nearly 6 percent, and outpaced inflation.<\/p>\n<p>State Comptroller Kelly Hancock touted the statewide average increase.  He called the increase &#8220;robust&#8221; and &#8220;evidence of continued strength in the Texas economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State sales tax collections from other economic sectors for the month of November 2025, compared to November 2024, and the percentage of change:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" style=\"color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<li>motor vehicle\u00a0sales\u00a0and rental\u00a0taxes\u00a0\u2014 $614 million, up 5 percent <\/li>\n<li>motor fuel\u00a0taxes\u00a0\u2014 $324 million, up 4 percent<\/li>\n<li>oil production\u00a0tax\u00a0\u2014 $394 million, down 9 percent<\/li>\n<li>natural gas production\u00a0tax\u00a0\u2014 $169 million, down 21 percent<\/li>\n<li>hotel occupancy\u00a0tax\u00a0\u2014 $61 million, up less than 1 percent<\/li>\n<li>alcoholic beverage\u00a0taxes\u00a0\u2014 $148 million, down 2 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-496635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115848571241456349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}