Suburban budgets looked a little different this year as the State of Tennessee changed the calculations it uses to disburse sales tax revenue to municipalities.

A law that took effect in January affected the way state funds are distributed, and the federal census at the start of a decade is not the metric unless it’s a year in which data from the decennial census is released. 

Up through the 2026 fiscal year budgets, municipalities were given the same amount of state-shared revenue based on the most recent census. Cities and towns could get more if they conducted a special census showing significant population growth.

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