New Rockford's taxable sales and purchases up 44% in first quarter

Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced on June 22 that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the first quarter of 2018 had increased by nearly 10 percent. Taxable sales and purchases for January, February and March 2018 were nearly $4.1 billion, a 9.55 percent increase over those months in 2017.

“This 10 percent increase in the first quarter is the largest year-over-year growth we...