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Sales tax returns for March 2021 were 42.46% higher than in the same month last year, according to town treasurer Michelle Stoke.

Has the town of Buena Vista’s 17-month streak of month-to-month sales tax increases come to an end? Depends on how you look at it. Comparing how much money was remitted from the state department of revenue last February compared to this one, 2021’s returns are less than 2020’s by 6.9 percent. However, last year, the town was reimbursed for a clerical correction to the tune of $116,076 on top of $212,808 of taxes the town brought in. Those two amounts combined were 71 percent higher than in February 2019, when the town recorded $191,997 in sales taxes. The corrective deposit mad...