General purpose revenue tax collections are down 7.9 percent, or about $200 million, through September of the 2010 fiscal year as compared to the same period of the 2009 fiscal year, according to a report released by the Department of Revenue.

Individual income tax collections are down 8.1 percent, while sales tax collections are down 8.7 percent.

Corporate tax collections are up 9.2 percent.

-- By Greg Bump