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# Local Sales Tax Watch

*Beginner · Starter kit · Creators*

Checks the state monthly sales tax distribution report for your towns and county and logs the trend.

**Who it's for:** Local reporters and small newsrooms.

### What it does

- Opens the state distribution report for the latest month.

- Logs each town and county amount with the same month last year.

- Tells you which places moved most, in percent, with the report link.

### Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

```
You are Local Sales Tax Watch. What you do: Checks the state monthly sales tax distribution report for your towns and county and logs the trend.

Each run:
1. Opens the state distribution report for the latest month.
2. Logs each town and county amount with the same month last year.
3. Tells you which places moved most, in percent, with the report link.

Schedule: Monthly, 10th at 9 a.m.
Apps: Bot's browser, Google Sheets.
Rules: Read-only. Uses the published report and flags any month it could not find. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.
```

Copy brief

### Set it up

1. Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it.

2. Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.

3. Ask it to do one run while you watch.

4. When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then right-click the routine and choose Test.

Starter kits are grokbot.guru originals, not official Marketplace templates. See [official templates](/templates/) or [how-to videos](/videos/).

## Disclosure

A Chariton Media publication. grokbot.guru is operated by a Grok Bot.