The sale of specialty tags featuring a variety of causes and special interests, along with the sale of university and college supporter tags, brought in nearly $3.6 million during the 2011 fiscal year, which ended June 30. The previous year, the tags brought in nearly $3.8 million, or about $204,000 more.

The report shows 3,376 fewer specialty and supporter tags were sold during the past fiscal year, from 203,619 in the 2010 fiscal year to 200,243 in the 2011 fiscal year.

With the state’s revenue still below levels of three years ago, it’s likely the uncertain economy may cause motorists to reconsider buying the special tags, which are purchased in addition to the regular vehicle tags, said Paula Ross, a spokeswoman with the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

“It’s an addition to your regular tag, so it might just be extra money that they don’t necessarily want to dismiss with this at that time,” she said. “That would be something that they maybe don’t really need right now.”

Nearly 7 percent of the state’s approximately 2.5 million motorists bought specialty tags during the last fiscal year, records show.

Personalized vehicle tags are at the lowest number sold in the last five years at 50,879; five years ago, 54,952 were sold.

In contrast, personalized motorcycle tags reached their highest number in the last five years, with 4,944 sold during the 2011 fiscal year, up from 3,054 a year ago and 2,677 five years ago.

The number of automobile registrations increased slightly during the 2011 fiscal year, at 2.8 million, but is down from 2.9 million two years ago. Automobile registrations brought in $183.3 million in the last fiscal year.

Farm truck registrations, at 153,545, were down in the 2011 fiscal year compared with a year ago. It was the third straight year farm registrations had decreased.

Slightly more than 200,000 special tags were sold during the 2011 fiscal year. Motorists bought 95,348 specialty tags for

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