TABLE 2. TAXABLE SALES, BY COUNTY, FIRST QUARTER 1999
(Taxable transactions in thousands of dollars)
	Sales tax permits as of January 1, 1999						Taxable transactions
			Outside						Outside						Percent
County	Incorporated		incorporated		Total		Incorporated		incorporated		Unallocated b/		Total		change
	cities		cities				cities		cities						year to year
Alameda	38,656		2,212		40,868		$3,845,819		$134,440		$581,862		$4,562,121		4.2
Alpine	--		68		68		--		3,484		2,684		6,168		-28.0
Amador	697		798		1,495		29,470		32,226		6,661		68,357		9.9
Butte	4,020		1,999		6,019		315,437		55,489		39,497		410,423		11.4
Calaveras	200		1,404		1,604		9,557		28,779		6,674		45,010		11.4
Colusa	296		199		495		22,602		10,054		9,251		41,907		12.2
Contra Costa	19,992		3,384		23,376		2,021,807		142,174		345,937		2,509,918		15.2
Del Norte	238		504		742		14,697		11,620		6,638		32,955		10.2
El Dorado	1,755		3,913		5,668		111,178		107,892		35,189		254,259		10.6
Fresno	15,480		3,221		18,701		1,375,778		159,583		175,518		1,710,879		10.5
Glenn	433		283		716		23,642		15,598		4,932		44,172		14.3
Humboldt	2,768		1,931		4,699		182,905		46,405		25,798		255,108		6.1
Imperial	3,595		427		4,022		225,906		28,541		30,726		285,173		6.3
Inyo	406		394		800		26,051		13,135		7,472		46,658		-0.3
Kern	8,957		5,813		14,770		871,153		374,110		167,254		1,412,517		7.8
Kings	1,547		413		1,960		128,531		19,352		23,452		171,335		9.0
Lake	594		1,117		1,711		35,549		28,794		11,547		75,890		8.0
Lassen	300		473		773		22,077		7,976		10,518		40,571		3.3
Los Angeles	256,112		14,264		270,376		18,943,431		724,204		2,335,999		22,003,634		5.8
Madera	1,027		1,664		2,691		92,640		70,657		24,819		188,116		12.7
Marin	9,582		2,063		11,645		666,970		56,241		71,911		795,122		9.4
Mariposa	--		734		734		--		16,697		4,070		20,767		-0.3
Mendocino	1,549		2,106		3,655		100,531		60,819		15,646		176,996		5.2
Merced	2,906		933		3,839		242,990		55,146		45,012		343,148		13.1
Modoc	182		238		420		6,018		1,505		3,402		10,925		1.8
Mono	364		275		639		30,701		2,574		5,932		39,207		13.2
Monterey	8,019		3,139		11,158		696,538		116,028		101,067		913,633		12.3
Napa	3,176		1,060		4,236		245,440		62,015		37,381		344,836		15.9
Nevada	1,806		2,276		4,082		103,612		54,670		25,773		184,055		11.5
Orange	90,226		3,618		93,844		7,886,467		218,568		940,339		9,045,374		6.6
Placer	4,942		3,337		8,279		595,160		186,734		99,869		881,763		14.9
Plumas	106		920		1,026		2,440		18,897		6,940		28,277		-6.1
Riverside	28,231		6,327		34,558		2,787,608		354,515		322,424		3,464,547		12.7
Sacramento	15,106		15,284		30,390		1,349,378		1,473,831		395,339		3,218,548		9.7
San Benito	871		373		1,244		55,720		17,251		11,315		84,286		6.9
San Bernardino	32,674		7,082		39,756		3,162,553		234,064		361,799		3,758,416		12.3
San Diego	69,921		9,862		79,783		6,283,023		345,969		705,248		7,334,240		8.9
San Francisco	30,103		--		30,103		2,698,814		--		--		2,698,814		6.5
San Joaquin	9,165		2,227		11,392		910,278		191,305		136,776		1,238,359		13.0
San Luis Obispo	6,251		3,040		9,291		407,800		88,169		57,627		553,596		11.2
San Mateo	20,431		1,605		22,036		2,192,252		164,822		295,175		2,652,249		4.5
Santa Barbara	9,470		4,261		13,731		684,353		186,283		97,885		968,521		10.6
Santa Clara	47,935		1,776		49,711		5,670,944		65,727		838,668		6,575,339		2.4
Santa Cruz	4,466		4,472		8,938		366,568		131,717		57,116		555,401		9.0
Shasta	3,472		2,158		5,630		303,115		38,716		36,748		378,579		7.1
Sierra	30		92		122		962		1,041		1,492		3,495		33.2
Siskiyou	1,409		824		2,233		51,568		6,518		14,927		73,013		9.3
Solano	7,633		448		8,081		710,519		27,652		84,664		822,835		8.5
Sonoma	10,737		5,896		16,633		970,729		175,477		119,080		1,265,286		9.6
Stanislaus	8,153		1,920		10,073