|
Revenue Analyses:
Numbers — Charts:
Revenue Breakdown:
| Tweet | | Contact | Follow @chrischantrill |
What is the Federal Government Revenue?
In FY 2026, total federal government revenue is budgeted to be $5.87 trillion.
US Federal Government Revenue Breakdown
in $ trillion
Government revenues are collected from only a few types of source.
Federal Government Revenue | |||
| Income Taxes | $1.1 trillion |  | |
| Social Insurance Taxes | + $0.7 trillion | | |
| Ad valorem Taxes | + $0.1 trillion | | |
| Fees and Charges | + $0.0 trillion | | |
| Business and Other Revenue | + $0.0 trillion | | |
| Total Direct Revenue | $2.0 trillion | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $-0.1 trillion | | |
| For detailed revenue click here | Switch to spending | ||
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
Tab-delimited Table
<table> Table
Suggested Video: Taxes 101
Top Revenue Requests:
Find DEFICIT stats and history.
US BUDGET overview and pie chart.
Find NATIONAL DEBT today.
DOWNLOAD revenue data.
See FEDERAL BUDGET breakdown and estimated vs. actual.
Check INCOME TAX details and history.
See BAR CHARTS of revenue.
Check STATE revenue: CA NY TX FL and compare.
See REVENUE ANALYSIS briefing.
See REVENUE HISTORY briefing.
Take a COURSE at Taxes 101.
Make your own CUSTOM CHART.
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.
Sources
US Treasury Combined Statement
of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances
U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules
New GOVINFO federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office
Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK
Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis
US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999
2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes
JpGraph Chart Library
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.
Historical US Federal Expenditure by Function 1902-1970
Table from Historical Statistics of the United States: Chapter Y: Government. Includes US Federal Expenditure 1902-1970, p 1123-1124.
> archive
Site Search
Spending 101
Take a course in government spending:
Spending |
Federal Debt |
Revenue
Defense |
Welfare |
Healthcare |
Education
Debt History |
Entitlements |
Deficits
State Spending |
State Taxes |
State Debt
It’s free!
Win Cash for Bugs
File a valid bug report and get a $5 Amazon Gift Certificate.
Get the Books
 Price: $0.99 Or download for free. |
 From usgovernment spending.com Price: $1.99 |
 Life after liberalism Price: $0.99 Or download for free. |
Data Sources for 2001:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.
Blog
US, State Population Update for 2025
On January 21, 2026 the US Census Bureau released its US national and state population estimates for July 1, 2025. On February 7, 2026 usgovernmentspending.com updated its US and state population data as follows:
- We updated 2020-2025 population data from US and states using data from US Census National Population Totals and Components of Change 2020-2025 in file NST-EST2025-POP.xlsx.
- We projected 2022 thru 2030 for the US and states projecting population rate change for 2024-25 through 2030.
usgovernmentspending.com uses population data in computing per capita spending and revenue data. You can see per capita spending data in a chart here, and in a table of spending here.
You can check the data update schedule here.
On January 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual report on ...
On March 27, 2025 the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Long Term Budget Outlook for 2025, which projects federal spendin ...
> blog
