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What is the Total Government Revenue?
In FY 2026, total US government revenue, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $10.78 trillion.
US Total Government Revenue Breakdown
in $ trillion
Government revenues are collected from only a few types of source.
Total Government Revenue | |||
| Income Taxes | $51 million |  | |
| Social Insurance Taxes | + $3 million | | |
| Ad valorem Taxes | + $2,841 million | | |
| Fees and Charges | + $348 million | | |
| Business and Other Revenue | + $135 million | | |
| Total Direct Revenue | $3,310 million | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $216 million | | |
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Revenue Definitions
Income Taxes: Individual and corporate income taxes.
Social Insurance Taxes: FICA taxes, unemployment, disability taxes.
Ad valorem Taxes: Sales, excise and property taxes, licenses.
Fees and Charges: Fees for government services other than taxes.
Business and Other Revenue: Revenue from government businesses such as liquor stores and utilities.
Total Direct Revenue: Total Revenue raised by federal, state, or local government. Does not include intergovernmental revenue such as federal grants.
Revenue Key:
Total revenue: interpolated between actual reported values, interpolated between actual reported values
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Revenue Data Sources
Revenue data is from official government sources.
- Federal revenue data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
- All other revenue data comes from the US Census Bureau.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from US Bureau of Economic Analysis and measuringworth.com.
Detailed table of revenue data sources here.
Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
State and local revenue data begins in 1820.
State and local revenue data for individual states begins in 1957.
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Data Sources for 1915:
GDP: Samuel H. Williamson, "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?" MeasuringWorth, 2015.
Federal: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
State and Local: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970
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Gross State Product for 2025
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its Gross State Product (GSP) data for 2025 on April 9, 2026.
Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its individual state GSPs for 2025 for each state using the projected national GDP numbers from Table 10.1 in the Historical Tables for the Federal FY2027 Budget and the historical GDP data series from the BEA as a baseline.
Process:
- Click on link.
- Click on "Interactive Data" link
- Click on "Interactive Tables: GDP by State" link
- Click on "Annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State"
- Click on "Summary Tables for GDP, personal income, and related data."
- Click on "SASUMMARY"
- Area: Select "All Areas"
- Statistic: Select "Real GDP..." and "Gross domestic product (GDP)"
- Click on Next Step button
- Time Period: Select "All Years"
- Click on Next Step button
- Click on Download button
- Select CSV
On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United ...
On March 15, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its GDP series with the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis ...
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