Ga. revenue continues to fall after slight uptick

ATLANTA

Revenues in Georgia are down for the second month in a row after a slight uptick.

Gov. Sonny Perdue announced Friday that total collections for May were $1.18 billion, compared to $1.26 billion in May 2009. That's a decrease of 6 percent.

Overall tax collections for the fiscal year, which ends July 1, are down more than 10 percent from the previous fiscal year.

Georgia had struggled through 15 months of plunging revenues before collections inched up 1 percent in April.