Maine Taxable Retail Sales

Current Maine Retail Sales Data

Maine Revenue Services revises historical data when necessary to reflect changes in business filings and category reassignments. Updated versions of these reports reflect those revisions and should never be combined with previously downloaded reports. All figures are in thousands of dollars. All blank cells represent information that legally must be withheld to preserve taxpayer confidentiality.

The Maine State Data Center is maintaining these quarterly and monthly data sets via interactive on-screen and downloadable spreadsheets for selectable dates and geographies. Quarterly information within the data tool is revised monthly.

You can access this information here: http://econ.maine.gov/index/build.

• Scroll down in the dataset selection to Taxable Retail Sales and choose either Monthly, Quarterly, or Annual data.
• Selecting a higher-level geography will present you with options to select more specific geographies.
  • Monthly data is available for the state and the summary areas within.
  • Quarterly data is available for counties and the municipalities within.
    • Ex: to view figures for Waterville and Augusta, select Kennebec in the left menu, then the cities in the middle menu.
• Available time periods are selectable in the right menu. Select any number of these, then Add Selection to Datasheet.
• You can now add additional data selections or time periods, or you can View Datasheet to process the query.

Definitions for Retail Store Categories (PDF)

Definitions for Economic Statistical Areas (PDF)

Static Annual Reports:

• 2010 (XLS) (PDF Summary)
• 2009 (XLS) (PDF Summary)
• 2008 (XLS)
• 2007 (XLS) (PDF)
• 2006 (XLS) (PDF)

Historic Maine Revenue Services Spreadsheets:

• Tax Sales ESA Monthly Jan04 to Feb11 (XLS)
• Tax Sales State Monthly Jan04 to Feb11 (XLS)