Gulfport example
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The City of Gulfport's FY2026 budget reports $29,639,962 on its Sales Tax line. Apply the ratios already in the law to that same line, year by year, and you get the figures below.
The illustration
Estimate
| Stage | Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars | Gain over current |
|---|---|---|
| Current | $29.64M | Baseline |
| Year 1 | $32.84M | $3.20M |
| Year 2 | $36.05M | $6.41M |
| Year 3 | $39.25M | $9.61M |
| Year 4 | $42.46M | $12.82M |
| Year 5 | $45.66M | $16.02M |
| Year 6 | $48.06M | $18.42M |
Current
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $29.64M
- Gain over current
- Baseline
Year 1
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $32.84M
- Gain over current
- $3.20M
Year 2
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $36.05M
- Gain over current
- $6.41M
Year 3
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $39.25M
- Gain over current
- $9.61M
Year 4
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $42.46M
- Gain over current
- $12.82M
Year 5
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $45.66M
- Gain over current
- $16.02M
Year 6
- Illustrated revenuemillions of dollars
- $48.06M
- Gain over current
- $18.42M
- Source
- City of Gulfport FY2026 budget: Sales Tax line. Published by City of Gulfport.
- As of
- FY2026
- Retrieved
- Definition
- The ratios already in the law, applied to one published city budget line. Not a Department of Revenue actual.
- Rounding
- Illustrated amounts expressed in millions of dollars to two decimals.
How to read this
The stages are the stages of the 30 percent schedule. Each row answers one question: if that year's city share had applied instead of today's, what would this same budget line show? Nothing here forecasts the city's economy, and nothing here changes the tax rate or the taxable base paid by consumers.
Any municipality can run the same arithmetic against its own published figures on the calculator page.