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Globe Staff / July 17, 2008

Percentage change in excise tax* collections between 2003-2007.

Municipality2007 CollectionChange
State$636,611,127-1.3%
Abington$1,694,92014.2%
Acton$2,690,3234.1%
Acushnet$1,059,520-3.8%
Adams$685,639-4.9%
Agawam$3,265,3468.9%
Alford$67,747-7.4%
Amesbury$1,719,6935.4%
Amherst$1,438,646-1.1%
Andover$4,563,040-0.1%
Aquinnah$36,89927.3%
Arlington$4,021,994-1.1%
Ashburnham$648,2084.8%
Ashby$343,0480.2%
Ashfield$166,192-0.9%
Ashland$2,037,891-9.5%
Athol$1,007,38617.0%
Attleboro$4,361,5139.5%
Auburn$2,196,487-4.9%
Avon$702,872-17.1%
Ayer$737,205-13.7%
Barnstable$6,564,93012.9%
Barre$569,59513.2%
Becket$222,60415.9%
Bedford$1,573,3343.1%
Belchertown$1,462,4399.2%
Bellingham$1,948,9028.2%
Belmont$2,573,892-4.0%
Berkley$663,2030.2%
Berlin$339,969-0.9%
Bernardston$235,325-8.2%
Beverly$3,936,8074.1%
Billerica$5,135,9500.8%
Blackstone$892,349-1.9%
Blandford$162,12472.2%
Bolton$709,5830.6%
Boston$34,500,196-24.3%
Bourne$2,281,8305.3%
Boxborough$607,787-2.2%
Boxford$1,399,8437.2%
Boylston$663,5053.6%
Braintree$4,196,0976.1%
Brewster$1,218,700-0.4%
Bridgewater$2,585,57713.9%
Brimfield$422,4109.6%
Brockton$5,901,130-8.2%
Brookfield$342,947-2.2%
Brookline$4,691,252-10.4%
Buckland$157,38215.9%
Burlington$2,822,104-5.3%
Cambridge$5,688,557-5.6%
Canton$3,364,215-0.1%
Carlisle$849,39210.3%
Carver$1,118,530-6.0%
Charlemont$119,2538.8%
Charlton$1,583,29211.9%
Chatham$1,022,6601.1%
Chelmsford$4,173,753-0.5%
Chelsea$2,141,510-30.8%
Cheshire$419,06312.7%
Chester$137,84312.4%
Chesterfield$126,684-0.6%
Chicopee$4,635,4887.2%
Chilmark$202,64713.5%
Clarksburg$127,560-21.5%
Clinton$1,286,4433.9%
Cohasset$1,237,1010.4%
Colrain$269,50790.2%
Concord$2,279,324-3.0%
Conway$224,25915.1%
CummingtonNANA
Dalton$717,5967.9%
Danvers$3,640,8407.4%
Dartmouth$3,347,6971.2%
Dedham$2,648,435-11.4%
Deerfield$607,617-9.1%
Dennis$1,861,4577.2%
Dighton$734,4741.9%
Douglas$986,5772.0%
Dover$1,112,7837.4%
Dracut$3,404,061-7.0%
Dudley$1,146,378-1.0%
Dunstable$411,086-1.6%
Duxbury$2,265,2306.2%
East Bridgewater$1,412,4692.1%
East Brookfield$261,989-0.5%
East Longmeadow$1,817,06510.4%
Eastham$727,700-1.0%
Easthampton$1,429,9716.2%
Easton$2,771,420-2.1%
Edgartown$726,2159.9%
Egremont$181,375-2.7%
Erving$134,00910.0%
Essex$480,8723.9%
Everett$3,030,910-1.0%
Fairhaven$1,544,7787.3%
Fall River$6,033,577-0.3%
Falmouth$4,269,7464.4%
Fitchburg$2,968,099-1.2%
Florida$84,34824.4%
Foxborough$2,259,818-2.0%
Framingham$6,518,172-3.2%
Franklin$4,255,87613.3%
Freetown$1,306,25516.9%
Gardner$1,698,5601.2%
Georgetown$1,142,84518.0%
Gill$157,010-10.4%
Gloucester$2,911,120-6.0%
Goshen$103,2279.7%
GosnoldNANA
Grafton$2,088,6428.4%
Granby$625,791-0.8%
Granville$210,24121.9%
Great Barrington$761,5721.4%
Greenfield$1,298,207-12.3%
Groton$1,300,645-0.5%
Groveland$752,8377.6%
Hadley$550,6377.0%
Halifax$836,882-4.2%
Hamilton$966,4352.5%
Hampden$629,167-1.9%
Hancock$110,29015.7%
Hanover$1,938,815-2.9%
Hanson$1,121,8071.8%
Hardwick$296,34719.9%
Harvard$778,655-4.1%
Harwich$1,707,292-2.8%
Hatfield$433,757-30.2%
Haverhill$5,348,2021.5%
Hawley$35,22374.0%
Heath$69,27810.7%
Hingham$3,180,4058.3%
Hinsdale$236,89014.4%
Holbrook$1,131,102-5.0%
Holden$2,054,2584.3%
Holland$279,98221.0%
Holliston$1,789,437-2.5%
Holyoke$2,158,70921.9%
Hopedale$734,380-18.4%
Hopkinton$2,069,150-1.7%
Hubbardston$509,57324.9%
Hudson$2,009,976-11.8%
Hull$1,069,512-1.8%
Huntington$208,8529.4%
Ipswich$1,633,615-6.8%
Kingston$1,598,1555.3%
Lakeville$1,250,7362.9%
Lancaster$736,679-6.9%
Lanesborough$377,5048.2%
Lawrence$2,990,120-13.6%
Lee$639,05532.8%
Leicester$1,113,2386.0%
Lenox$659,1216.1%
Leominster$4,094,105-3.2%
Leverett$193,2559.7%
Lexington$3,891,374-0.4%
Leyden$70,349-28.7%
Lincoln$824,3323.0%
Littleton$1,063,615-7.9%
Longmeadow$2,078,194-1.2%
Lowell$6,684,2834.2%
Ludlow$2,029,9412.6%
Lunenburg$1,332,64814.0%
Lynn$5,578,0990.5%
Lynnfield$2,084,55114.6%
Malden$3,680,776-14.3%
Manchester$848,1858.3%
Mansfield$2,734,096-6.7%
Marblehead$2,921,0413.9%
Marion$658,8483.7%
Marlborough$4,246,0342.6%
Marshfield$3,123,301-0.3%
Mashpee$1,765,4126.5%
Mattapoisett$817,76120.7%
Maynard$1,265,40816.1%
Medfield$1,787,92014.9%
Medford$4,856,912-4.0%
Medway$1,596,5815.3%
Melrose$2,744,148-0.2%
Mendon$796,8267.3%
Merrimac$671,9201.1%
Methuen$4,508,2142.9%
Middleborough$2,444,79311.5%
MiddlefieldNANA
Middleton$1,278,96022.4%
Milford$2,967,659-2.5%
Millbury$1,584,45412.9%
Millis$1,008,2223.4%
Millville$308,012-4.1%
Milton$2,970,093-0.7%
Monroe$11,825-6.4%
Monson$955,88414.0%
Montague$622,330-1.2%
Monterey$113,9461.0%
Montgomery$90,2422.3%
Mount Washington$21,214-10.1%
Nahant$473,9375.0%
Nantucket$2,099,5703.1%
Natick$3,937,0556.9%
Needham$4,124,3781.1%
New Ashford$30,25614.6%
New Bedford$5,824,562-2.6%
New Braintree$105,290-4.1%
New Marlborough$226,07211.9%
New Salem$107,56116.4%
Newbury$908,324-5.3%
Newburyport$2,095,0267.8%
Newton$10,745,2290.9%
Norfolk$1,280,6740.3%
North Adams$996,5142.3%
North Andover$3,460,291-2.2%
North Attleborough$3,296,2268.4%
North Brookfield$446,5942.6%
North Reading$2,153,9084.6%
Northampton$2,094,240-6.1%
Northborough$1,858,223-14.0%
Northbridge$1,598,1055.5%
Northfield$315,6136.3%
Norton$1,973,8894.1%
Norwell$1,726,7406.9%
Norwood$3,646,3139.8%
Oak Bluffs$611,30013.7%
Oakham$241,7188.0%
Orange$621,2608.7%
Orleans$1,038,957-6.6%
Otis$202,537-1.9%
Oxford$1,634,1071.5%
Palmer$1,249,2270.4%
Paxton$571,176-1.9%
Peabody$5,605,0260.5%
Pelham$122,564-3.4%
Pembroke$2,004,435-1.1%
Pepperell$1,261,7811.9%
Peru$88,656-12.8%
Petersham$135,85723.4%
Phillipston$208,98111.5%
Pittsfield$3,880,458-3.3%
Plainfield$64,23929.0%
Plainville$996,491-3.5%
Plymouth$6,180,5003.8%
Plympton$373,2255.2%
Princeton$543,5634.5%
Provincetown$469,715-4.6%
Quincy$7,592,699-4.7%
Randolph$2,929,849-11.4%
Raynham$1,777,6038.3%
Reading$2,756,670-2.9%
Rehoboth$1,516,40715.0%
Revere$4,482,2219.5%
RichmondNANA
Rochester$635,174-4.3%
Rockland$1,620,871-7.3%
Rockport$822,540-10.4%
Rowe$44,28426.9%
Rowley$791,4000.2%
Royalston$128,75435.2%
Russell$151,3504.2%
Rutland$890,84210.6%
Salem$3,179,2350.1%
Salisbury$948,374-3.9%
Sandisfield$62,561-20.7%
Sandwich$2,594,2883.7%
Saugus$3,103,9662.9%
Savoy$87,7224.4%
Scituate$2,298,7695.3%
Seekonk$1,707,681-3.0%
Sharon$2,433,075-0.8%
Sheffield$408,125-3.8%
Shelburne$182,346-10.5%
Sherborn$707,2711.6%
Shirley$593,4894.2%
Shrewsbury$4,411,325-0.6%
Shutesbury$164,6172.6%
Somerset$1,773,251-1.8%
Somerville$4,508,441-6.3%
South Hadley$1,547,096-6.1%
Southampton$669,3853.3%
Southborough$1,758,885-2.5%
Southbridge$1,320,884-5.4%
Southwick$1,154,22431.3%
Spencer$1,237,089-4.7%
Springfield$8,635,62615.9%
Sterling$1,039,928-0.6%
Stockbridge$257,351-4.2%
Stoneham$2,529,812-9.3%
Stoughton$3,159,522-7.4%
Stow$793,906-7.7%
Sturbridge$1,189,36012.3%
Sudbury$2,589,563-3.0%
Sunderland$316,971-4.8%
Sutton$1,228,3956.1%
Swampscott$1,987,56111.9%
Swansea$1,683,731-0.6%
Taunton$5,126,311-2.6%
Templeton$784,9093.3%
Tewksbury$3,594,399-3.8%
Tisbury$524,776-8.7%
Tolland$56,81024.9%
Topsfield$851,685-5.6%
Townsend$941,1902.4%
Truro$470,45169.3%
Tyngsborough$1,427,889-6.3%
Tyringham$48,6696.6%
Upton$908,5737.8%
Uxbridge$1,543,0244.0%
Wakefield$3,053,104-1.7%
Wales$185,1163.9%
Walpole$3,252,0932.5%
Waltham$5,579,362-5.4%
Ware$868,4181.2%
Wareham$2,231,887-3.0%
Warren$440,4136.0%
Warwick$78,21110.1%
Washington$76,72719.4%
Watertown$3,019,158-11.1%
Wayland$1,993,537-2.1%
Webster$1,668,974-0.9%
Wellesley$4,061,2546.1%
Wellfleet$387,7612.9%
Wendell$71,140-1.6%
Wenham$535,781-3.6%
West Boylston$919,4768.9%
West Bridgewater$1,043,5822.9%
West Brookfield$385,1121.6%
West Newbury$582,6887.0%
West Springfield$2,825,0346.4%
West Stockbridge$206,47115.6%
West Tisbury$459,3763.6%
Westborough$2,477,899-3.0%
Westfield$3,770,771-2.3%
Westford$2,726,977-1.0%
Westhampton$186,7018.8%
Westminster$956,4953.7%
Weston$2,295,5156.0%
Westport$1,817,2588.5%
Westwood$2,135,755-5.9%
Weymouth$5,611,7071.5%
Whately$182,7075.6%
Whitman$1,485,3761.2%
Wilbraham$1,821,479-0.5%
Williamsburg$240,738-7.1%
Williamstown$649,7293.3%
Wilmington$3,028,490-7.3%
Winchendon$913,5766.7%
Winchester$2,893,394-1.3%
Windsor$106,459-4.6%
Winthrop$1,623,0252.5%
Woburn$4,733,951-0.8%
Worcester$12,313,675-11.2%
Worthington$151,9755.0%
Wrentham$1,422,7015.6%
Yarmouth$2,864,554-5.9%

*Tax assessed on motor vehicles and trailers

SOURCE: State Department of Revenue

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