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How much does each city and town get from the meals and beverage tax?
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
| Meals & beverage taxes | |||
The state collects an 8-percent tax on meals and beverages — 7 percent for the state and 1 percent for the local community. This chart shows the 1 percent returned to communities for May and the percent change from last year. | |||
| May ’07 | May ’08 | Change | |
| Barrington | 10,260 | 7,651 | -25.4% |
| Bristol | 28,768 | 29,964 | +4.2% |
| Burrillville | 15,869 | 18,714 | +17.9% |
| Central Falls | 9,145 | 6,401 | -30.0% |
| Charlestown | 9,952 | 10,794 | +8.5% |
| Coventry | 31,839 | 27,062 | -15.0% |
| Cranston | 124,901 | 107,729 | -13.7% |
| Cumberland | 48,399 | 29,386 | -39.3% |
| E. Greenwich | 37,522 | 35,694 | -4.9% |
| E. Providence | 67,400 | 63,719 | -5.5% |
| Exeter | 6,158 | 5,437 | -11.7% |
| Foster | 1,831 | 2,483 | +35.6% |
| Glocester | 5,108 | 4,792 | -6.2% |
| Hopkinton | 4,193 | 3,708 | -11.6% |
| Jamestown | 8,520 | N/A | |
| Johnston | 38,985 | 38,090 | -2.3% |
| Lincoln | 62,143 | 49,407 | -20.5% |
| Little Compton | 2,276 | 1,357 | -40.4% |
| Middletown | 59,383 | 54,470 | -8.3% |
| Narragansett | 35,769 | 29,805 | -16.7% |
| New Shoreham | 11,667 | 10,734 | -8.0% |
| Newport | 140,061 | 128,894 | -8.0% |
| N. Kingstown | 37,282 | 38,128 | +2.3% |
| N. Providence | 36,458 | 33,061 | -9.3% |
| N. Smithfield | 13,214 | 12,170 | -7.9% |
| Pawtucket | 60,297 | 57,104 | -5.3% |
| Portsmouth | 18,478 | 13,467 | -27.1% |
| Providence | 404,710 | 362,205 | -10.5% |
| Richmond | 9,934 | 9,392 | -5.5% |
| Scituate | 5,507 | 5,449 | -1.1% |
| Smithfield | 48,067 | 41,805 | -13.0% |
| S. Kingstown | 41,145 | 40,945 | -0.5% |
| Tiverton | 16,377 | 14,374 | -12.2% |
| Warren | 21,590 | 24,653 | +14.2% |
| Warwick | 201,789 | 195,982 | -2.9% |
| W. Greenwich | 6,834 | 6,337 | -7.3% |
| W. Warwick | 29,180 | 28,736 | -1.5% |
| Westerly | 55,827 | N/A | |
| Woonsocket | 46,489 | 40,930 | -12.0% |
| STATEWIDE | 1,748,979 | 1,591,030 | -9.0% |
| NOTE: Statewide total excludes Jamestown and Westerly, which were not available. | |||
SOURCE: R.I. Department of RevenueTHE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL | |||
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