Taxable sales

Taxable sales reported to the Nevada Department of Taxation, by county and statewide, monthly and in nominal dollars.

What is being counted. The gross receipts of sales subject to Nevada's sales and use tax, as reported by the businesses that collected it. It is not retail sales: business-to-business purchases of taxable goods are in, and most services, groceries for home consumption and prescription medicines are out. It is a measure of taxable economic activity, not of consumer spending, and the two move differently.

Which month a figure belongs to. The figure is for sales made in the month shown — the Department calls it the filing period. Returns for a month are filed the month after, and the report is published about two months after the month itself. A figure is therefore roughly ten weeks old when it first appears.

Where the sales are counted. By the county of the selling business's location, not the buyer's. A county with a large distribution or online seller records sales that were delivered elsewhere, which is the main reason a small county's figure can move by hundreds of percent in a month: Storey County's August 2026 taxable sales were 231% above August 2025, on industrial activity rather than on anything its residents bought.

The counties do not quite add up to the state. Each report carries a small bucket of sales not assigned to any county — usually zero, occasionally a few hundred thousand dollars. The statewide figure here is the Department's own total, which includes that bucket, rather than a sum of the counties.

Figures are stored to the cent. Some of the Department's workbooks carry a county total as an un-rounded sum of the records behind it — Clark County's November 2024 cell holds 5,296,670,343.2296 — and we round that to the cent the published report itself shows, rather than storing a precision the dollars do not have.

Not seasonally adjusted, and not adjusted for inflation. December is always large and February always small; compare a month against the same month a year earlier rather than against the one before it.

History begins in November 2024, which is as far back as the Department publishes this report as a spreadsheet. Earlier months exist only as PDFs and are not yet ingested.