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OKLAHOMA CITY — On the same day $152.1 million that had been cut from state agencies’ budgets last fiscal year was returned, deposits to the state’s general revenue fund for the current fiscal year took an unexpected upward tick in August, officials said Tuesday.

State Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger cautioned that the general fund surge was the result of “anomalies” in personal income tax collections, however, and noted that the general fund’s other primary revenue source, sales tax collections, continued to decline last month.

“Revenues are somewhat better than a few months ago, but certainly not 31 percent better,” said Doerflinger.

For August, total general revenue beat projections by 31 percent but was only 2 percent above the same month a year ago.

Doerflinger said personal income tax revenue to the general fund was more than twice the expected amount because projections had been “dialed back” based on the previous three years and because of the timing of a transfer to the Oklahoma’s Promise college scholarship program.

Sales tax revenue, which has been below projections for 18 of the past 19 months, came in 6.1 percent below the estimate and 5.8 percent below the same month a year ago.