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Percentage change in excise tax* collections between 2003-2007.
| Municipality | 2007 Collection | Change |
|---|---|---|
| State | $636,611,127 | -1.3% |
| Abington | $1,694,920 | 14.2% |
| Acton | $2,690,323 | 4.1% |
| Acushnet | $1,059,520 | -3.8% |
| Adams | $685,639 | -4.9% |
| Agawam | $3,265,346 | 8.9% |
| Alford | $67,747 | -7.4% |
| Amesbury | $1,719,693 | 5.4% |
| Amherst | $1,438,646 | -1.1% |
| Andover | $4,563,040 | -0.1% |
| Aquinnah | $36,899 | 27.3% |
| Arlington | $4,021,994 | -1.1% |
| Ashburnham | $648,208 | 4.8% |
| Ashby | $343,048 | 0.2% |
| Ashfield | $166,192 | -0.9% |
| Ashland | $2,037,891 | -9.5% |
| Athol | $1,007,386 | 17.0% |
| Attleboro | $4,361,513 | 9.5% |
| Auburn | $2,196,487 | -4.9% |
| Avon | $702,872 | -17.1% |
| Ayer | $737,205 | -13.7% |
| Barnstable | $6,564,930 | 12.9% |
| Barre | $569,595 | 13.2% |
| Becket | $222,604 | 15.9% |
| Bedford | $1,573,334 | 3.1% |
| Belchertown | $1,462,439 | 9.2% |
| Bellingham | $1,948,902 | 8.2% |
| Belmont | $2,573,892 | -4.0% |
| Berkley | $663,203 | 0.2% |
| Berlin | $339,969 | -0.9% |
| Bernardston | $235,325 | -8.2% |
| Beverly | $3,936,807 | 4.1% |
| Billerica | $5,135,950 | 0.8% |
| Blackstone | $892,349 | -1.9% |
| Blandford | $162,124 | 72.2% |
| Bolton | $709,583 | 0.6% |
| Boston | $34,500,196 | -24.3% |
| Bourne | $2,281,830 | 5.3% |
| Boxborough | $607,787 | -2.2% |
| Boxford | $1,399,843 | 7.2% |
| Boylston | $663,505 | 3.6% |
| Braintree | $4,196,097 | 6.1% |
| Brewster | $1,218,700 | -0.4% |
| Bridgewater | $2,585,577 | 13.9% |
| Brimfield | $422,410 | 9.6% |
| Brockton | $5,901,130 | -8.2% |
| Brookfield | $342,947 | -2.2% |
| Brookline | $4,691,252 | -10.4% |
| Buckland | $157,382 | 15.9% |
| Burlington | $2,822,104 | -5.3% |
| Cambridge | $5,688,557 | -5.6% |
| Canton | $3,364,215 | -0.1% |
| Carlisle | $849,392 | 10.3% |
| Carver | $1,118,530 | -6.0% |
| Charlemont | $119,253 | 8.8% |
| Charlton | $1,583,292 | 11.9% |
| Chatham | $1,022,660 | 1.1% |
| Chelmsford | $4,173,753 | -0.5% |
| Chelsea | $2,141,510 | -30.8% |
| Cheshire | $419,063 | 12.7% |
| Chester | $137,843 | 12.4% |
| Chesterfield | $126,684 | -0.6% |
| Chicopee | $4,635,488 | 7.2% |
| Chilmark | $202,647 | 13.5% |
| Clarksburg | $127,560 | -21.5% |
| Clinton | $1,286,443 | 3.9% |
| Cohasset | $1,237,101 | 0.4% |
| Colrain | $269,507 | 90.2% |
| Concord | $2,279,324 | -3.0% |
| Conway | $224,259 | 15.1% |
| Cummington | NA | NA |
| Dalton | $717,596 | 7.9% |
| Danvers | $3,640,840 | 7.4% |
| Dartmouth | $3,347,697 | 1.2% |
| Dedham | $2,648,435 | -11.4% |
| Deerfield | $607,617 | -9.1% |
| Dennis | $1,861,457 | 7.2% |
| Dighton | $734,474 | 1.9% |
| Douglas | $986,577 | 2.0% |
| Dover | $1,112,783 | 7.4% |
| Dracut | $3,404,061 | -7.0% |
| Dudley | $1,146,378 | -1.0% |
| Dunstable | $411,086 | -1.6% |
| Duxbury | $2,265,230 | 6.2% |
| East Bridgewater | $1,412,469 | 2.1% |
| East Brookfield | $261,989 | -0.5% |
| East Longmeadow | $1,817,065 | 10.4% |
| Eastham | $727,700 | -1.0% |
| Easthampton | $1,429,971 | 6.2% |
| Easton | $2,771,420 | -2.1% |
| Edgartown | $726,215 | 9.9% |
| Egremont | $181,375 | -2.7% |
| Erving | $134,009 | 10.0% |
| Essex | $480,872 | 3.9% |
| Everett | $3,030,910 | -1.0% |
| Fairhaven | $1,544,778 | 7.3% |
| Fall River | $6,033,577 | -0.3% |
| Falmouth | $4,269,746 | 4.4% |
| Fitchburg | $2,968,099 | -1.2% |
| Florida | $84,348 | 24.4% |
| Foxborough | $2,259,818 | -2.0% |
| Framingham | $6,518,172 | -3.2% |
| Franklin | $4,255,876 | 13.3% |
| Freetown | $1,306,255 | 16.9% |
| Gardner | $1,698,560 | 1.2% |
| Georgetown | $1,142,845 | 18.0% |
| Gill | $157,010 | -10.4% |
| Gloucester | $2,911,120 | -6.0% |
| Goshen | $103,227 | 9.7% |
| Gosnold | NA | NA |
| Grafton | $2,088,642 | 8.4% |
| Granby | $625,791 | -0.8% |
| Granville | $210,241 | 21.9% |
| Great Barrington | $761,572 | 1.4% |
| Greenfield | $1,298,207 | -12.3% |
| Groton | $1,300,645 | -0.5% |
| Groveland | $752,837 | 7.6% |
| Hadley | $550,637 | 7.0% |
| Halifax | $836,882 | -4.2% |
| Hamilton | $966,435 | 2.5% |
| Hampden | $629,167 | -1.9% |
| Hancock | $110,290 | 15.7% |
| Hanover | $1,938,815 | -2.9% |
| Hanson | $1,121,807 | 1.8% |
| Hardwick | $296,347 | 19.9% |
| Harvard | $778,655 | -4.1% |
| Harwich | $1,707,292 | -2.8% |
| Hatfield | $433,757 | -30.2% |
| Haverhill | $5,348,202 | 1.5% |
| Hawley | $35,223 | 74.0% |
| Heath | $69,278 | 10.7% |
| Hingham | $3,180,405 | 8.3% |
| Hinsdale | $236,890 | 14.4% |
| Holbrook | $1,131,102 | -5.0% |
| Holden | $2,054,258 | 4.3% |
| Holland | $279,982 | 21.0% |
| Holliston | $1,789,437 | -2.5% |
| Holyoke | $2,158,709 | 21.9% |
| Hopedale | $734,380 | -18.4% |
| Hopkinton | $2,069,150 | -1.7% |
| Hubbardston | $509,573 | 24.9% |
| Hudson | $2,009,976 | -11.8% |
| Hull | $1,069,512 | -1.8% |
| Huntington | $208,852 | 9.4% |
| Ipswich | $1,633,615 | -6.8% |
| Kingston | $1,598,155 | 5.3% |
| Lakeville | $1,250,736 | 2.9% |
| Lancaster | $736,679 | -6.9% |
| Lanesborough | $377,504 | 8.2% |
| Lawrence | $2,990,120 | -13.6% |
| Lee | $639,055 | 32.8% |
| Leicester | $1,113,238 | 6.0% |
| Lenox | $659,121 | 6.1% |
| Leominster | $4,094,105 | -3.2% |
| Leverett | $193,255 | 9.7% |
| Lexington | $3,891,374 | -0.4% |
| Leyden | $70,349 | -28.7% |
| Lincoln | $824,332 | 3.0% |
| Littleton | $1,063,615 | -7.9% |
| Longmeadow | $2,078,194 | -1.2% |
| Lowell | $6,684,283 | 4.2% |
| Ludlow | $2,029,941 | 2.6% |
| Lunenburg | $1,332,648 | 14.0% |
| Lynn | $5,578,099 | 0.5% |
| Lynnfield | $2,084,551 | 14.6% |
| Malden | $3,680,776 | -14.3% |
| Manchester | $848,185 | 8.3% |
| Mansfield | $2,734,096 | -6.7% |
| Marblehead | $2,921,041 | 3.9% |
| Marion | $658,848 | 3.7% |
| Marlborough | $4,246,034 | 2.6% |
| Marshfield | $3,123,301 | -0.3% |
| Mashpee | $1,765,412 | 6.5% |
| Mattapoisett | $817,761 | 20.7% |
| Maynard | $1,265,408 | 16.1% |
| Medfield | $1,787,920 | 14.9% |
| Medford | $4,856,912 | -4.0% |
| Medway | $1,596,581 | 5.3% |
| Melrose | $2,744,148 | -0.2% |
| Mendon | $796,826 | 7.3% |
| Merrimac | $671,920 | 1.1% |
| Methuen | $4,508,214 | 2.9% |
| Middleborough | $2,444,793 | 11.5% |
| Middlefield | NA | NA |
| Middleton | $1,278,960 | 22.4% |
| Milford | $2,967,659 | -2.5% |
| Millbury | $1,584,454 | 12.9% |
| Millis | $1,008,222 | 3.4% |
| Millville | $308,012 | -4.1% |
| Milton | $2,970,093 | -0.7% |
| Monroe | $11,825 | -6.4% |
| Monson | $955,884 | 14.0% |
| Montague | $622,330 | -1.2% |
| Monterey | $113,946 | 1.0% |
| Montgomery | $90,242 | 2.3% |
| Mount Washington | $21,214 | -10.1% |
| Nahant | $473,937 | 5.0% |
| Nantucket | $2,099,570 | 3.1% |
| Natick | $3,937,055 | 6.9% |
| Needham | $4,124,378 | 1.1% |
| New Ashford | $30,256 | 14.6% |
| New Bedford | $5,824,562 | -2.6% |
| New Braintree | $105,290 | -4.1% |
| New Marlborough | $226,072 | 11.9% |
| New Salem | $107,561 | 16.4% |
| Newbury | $908,324 | -5.3% |
| Newburyport | $2,095,026 | 7.8% |
| Newton | $10,745,229 | 0.9% |
| Norfolk | $1,280,674 | 0.3% |
| North Adams | $996,514 | 2.3% |
| North Andover | $3,460,291 | -2.2% |
| North Attleborough | $3,296,226 | 8.4% |
| North Brookfield | $446,594 | 2.6% |
| North Reading | $2,153,908 | 4.6% |
| Northampton | $2,094,240 | -6.1% |
| Northborough | $1,858,223 | -14.0% |
| Northbridge | $1,598,105 | 5.5% |
| Northfield | $315,613 | 6.3% |
| Norton | $1,973,889 | 4.1% |
| Norwell | $1,726,740 | 6.9% |
| Norwood | $3,646,313 | 9.8% |
| Oak Bluffs | $611,300 | 13.7% |
| Oakham | $241,718 | 8.0% |
| Orange | $621,260 | 8.7% |
| Orleans | $1,038,957 | -6.6% |
| Otis | $202,537 | -1.9% |
| Oxford | $1,634,107 | 1.5% |
| Palmer | $1,249,227 | 0.4% |
| Paxton | $571,176 | -1.9% |
| Peabody | $5,605,026 | 0.5% |
| Pelham | $122,564 | -3.4% |
| Pembroke | $2,004,435 | -1.1% |
| Pepperell | $1,261,781 | 1.9% |
| Peru | $88,656 | -12.8% |
| Petersham | $135,857 | 23.4% |
| Phillipston | $208,981 | 11.5% |
| Pittsfield | $3,880,458 | -3.3% |
| Plainfield | $64,239 | 29.0% |
| Plainville | $996,491 | -3.5% |
| Plymouth | $6,180,500 | 3.8% |
| Plympton | $373,225 | 5.2% |
| Princeton | $543,563 | 4.5% |
| Provincetown | $469,715 | -4.6% |
| Quincy | $7,592,699 | -4.7% |
| Randolph | $2,929,849 | -11.4% |
| Raynham | $1,777,603 | 8.3% |
| Reading | $2,756,670 | -2.9% |
| Rehoboth | $1,516,407 | 15.0% |
| Revere | $4,482,221 | 9.5% |
| Richmond | NA | NA |
| Rochester | $635,174 | -4.3% |
| Rockland | $1,620,871 | -7.3% |
| Rockport | $822,540 | -10.4% |
| Rowe | $44,284 | 26.9% |
| Rowley | $791,400 | 0.2% |
| Royalston | $128,754 | 35.2% |
| Russell | $151,350 | 4.2% |
| Rutland | $890,842 | 10.6% |
| Salem | $3,179,235 | 0.1% |
| Salisbury | $948,374 | -3.9% |
| Sandisfield | $62,561 | -20.7% |
| Sandwich | $2,594,288 | 3.7% |
| Saugus | $3,103,966 | 2.9% |
| Savoy | $87,722 | 4.4% |
| Scituate | $2,298,769 | 5.3% |
| Seekonk | $1,707,681 | -3.0% |
| Sharon | $2,433,075 | -0.8% |
| Sheffield | $408,125 | -3.8% |
| Shelburne | $182,346 | -10.5% |
| Sherborn | $707,271 | 1.6% |
| Shirley | $593,489 | 4.2% |
| Shrewsbury | $4,411,325 | -0.6% |
| Shutesbury | $164,617 | 2.6% |
| Somerset | $1,773,251 | -1.8% |
| Somerville | $4,508,441 | -6.3% |
| South Hadley | $1,547,096 | -6.1% |
| Southampton | $669,385 | 3.3% |
| Southborough | $1,758,885 | -2.5% |
| Southbridge | $1,320,884 | -5.4% |
| Southwick | $1,154,224 | 31.3% |
| Spencer | $1,237,089 | -4.7% |
| Springfield | $8,635,626 | 15.9% |
| 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 | $1,189,360 | 12.3% |
| Sudbury | $2,589,563 | -3.0% |
| Sunderland | $316,971 | -4.8% |
| Sutton | $1,228,395 | 6.1% |
| Swampscott | $1,987,561 | 11.9% |
| Swansea | $1,683,731 | -0.6% |
| Taunton | $5,126,311 | -2.6% |
| Templeton | $784,909 | 3.3% |
| Tewksbury | $3,594,399 | -3.8% |
| Tisbury | $524,776 | -8.7% |
| Tolland | $56,810 | 24.9% |
| Topsfield | $851,685 | -5.6% |
| Townsend | $941,190 | 2.4% |
| Truro | $470,451 | 69.3% |
| Tyngsborough | $1,427,889 | -6.3% |
| Tyringham | $48,669 | 6.6% |
| Upton | $908,573 | 7.8% |
| Uxbridge | $1,543,024 | 4.0% |
| Wakefield | $3,053,104 | -1.7% |
| Wales | $185,116 | 3.9% |
| Walpole | $3,252,093 | 2.5% |
| Waltham | $5,579,362 | -5.4% |
| Ware | $868,418 | 1.2% |
| Wareham | $2,231,887 | -3.0% |
| Warren | $440,413 | 6.0% |
| Warwick | $78,211 | 10.1% |
| Washington | $76,727 | 19.4% |
| Watertown | $3,019,158 | -11.1% |
| Wayland | $1,993,537 | -2.1% |
| Webster | $1,668,974 | -0.9% |
| Wellesley | $4,061,254 | 6.1% |
| Wellfleet | $387,761 | 2.9% |
| Wendell | $71,140 | -1.6% |
| Wenham | $535,781 | -3.6% |
| West Boylston | $919,476 | 8.9% |
| West Bridgewater | $1,043,582 | 2.9% |
| West Brookfield | $385,112 | 1.6% |
| West Newbury | $582,688 | 7.0% |
| West Springfield | $2,825,034 | 6.4% |
| West Stockbridge | $206,471 | 15.6% |
| West Tisbury | $459,376 | 3.6% |
| Westborough | $2,477,899 | -3.0% |
| Westfield | $3,770,771 | -2.3% |
| Westford | $2,726,977 | -1.0% |
| Westhampton | $186,701 | 8.8% |
| Westminster | $956,495 | 3.7% |
| Weston | $2,295,515 | 6.0% |
| Westport | $1,817,258 | 8.5% |
| Westwood | $2,135,755 | -5.9% |
| Weymouth | $5,611,707 | 1.5% |
| Whately | $182,707 | 5.6% |
| Whitman | $1,485,376 | 1.2% |
| Wilbraham | $1,821,479 | -0.5% |
| Williamsburg | $240,738 | -7.1% |
| Williamstown | $649,729 | 3.3% |
| Wilmington | $3,028,490 | -7.3% |
| Winchendon | $913,576 | 6.7% |
| Winchester | $2,893,394 | -1.3% |
| Windsor | $106,459 | -4.6% |
| Winthrop | $1,623,025 | 2.5% |
| Woburn | $4,733,951 | -0.8% |
| Worcester | $12,313,675 | -11.2% |
| Worthington | $151,975 | 5.0% |
| Wrentham | $1,422,701 | 5.6% |
| Yarmouth | $2,864,554 | -5.9% |
*Tax assessed on motor vehicles and trailers
SOURCE: State Department of Revenue
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