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Time Series Chart of Federal Income Taxes

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Revenue Units: By default, government revenue is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select $ bln 2005, pct GDP and more.
Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.
US or State: By default, the chart shows overall United States government revenue. But you can select revenue for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading.
State, Local: By default, you can chart state revenue or local revenue by clicking a radio button in the selection table. But you can chart state-and-local combined by selecting state n local in the state/local dropdown control in the table heading.
Linear/Log: By default, the data series are displayed as linear charts. But you can also select a log chart. Linear charts show constant amount changes as a straight line; Log charts show constant rates of change as a straight line.
Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart.
Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series.
Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size.
Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want.
US Budget Year: By default, the chart displays budgeted and estimated federal revenue in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using this dropdown control.

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Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want.
End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want.
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Data Series: Select a revenue series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
 
 
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If you’d like to create your own custom chart of revenue data you should use the table above to make your selections.

  • Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
  • Select revenue items: Just select the revenue item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
  • Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2005) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
  • Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.

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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.

Federal Income Taxes
Fiscal Years 1910 to 2010
YearGDP-US
$ billion nominal
Population-US
million
Individual Income Tax -fed
percent GDP
Corporate Income Tax -fed
percent GDP
1910MW gdp92.2290.00i0.00i
1911MW gdp93.5230.00i0.00i
1912MW gdp94.8360.00i0.00i
1913MW gdp96.1670.00a0.09a
1914MW gdp97.5160.00i0.11i
1915MW gdp98.8850.00i0.12i
1916MW gdp100.2730.13i0.11i
1917MW gdp101.6800.29i0.33i
1918MW gdp103.1071.68i1.91i
1919MW gdp104.5541.61i1.82i
1920MW gdp106.0222.15i2.41i
1921MW gdp107.6262.19i2.44i
1922MW gdp109.2541.44a1.60a
1923MW gdp110.9080.94i1.03i
1924MW gdp112.5860.98i1.07i
1925MW gdp114.2900.90i0.97i
1926MW gdp116.0190.87i1.09i
1927MW gdp117.7750.92a1.32a
1928MW gdp119.5570.87i1.27i
1929MW gdp121.3661.01i1.14i
1930MW gdp123.2031.20i1.32i
1931MW gdp124.0711.04i1.28i
1932MW gdp124.9450.69a1.02a
1933MW gdp125.8250.72i0.87i
1934MW gdp126.7120.61a0.58a
1935MW gdp127.6050.73i0.77i
1936MW gdp128.5040.79a0.89a
1937MW gdp129.4101.06i1.13i
1938MW gdp130.3211.48a1.55a
1939MW gdp131.2401.21i1.33i
1940MW gdp132.1650.95a1.11a
1941MW gdp133.9661.01i1.73i
1942MW gdp135.7921.98a2.92a
1943MW gdp137.6433.31i4.82i
1944MW gdp139.5198.96a6.70a
1945MW gdp141.4218.22i7.21i
1946MW gdp143.3497.27a5.33a
1947MW gdp145.3037.34i3.54i
1948MW gdp147.2837.17a3.60a
1949MW gdp149.2915.82i4.18i
1950MW gdp151.3265.36a3.57a
1951MW gdp153.9176.38a4.16a
1952MW gdp156.5527.79a5.92a
1953MW gdp159.2327.86a5.60a
1954MW gdp161.9587.77a5.55a
1955MW gdp164.7316.93a4.31a
1956MW gdp167.5517.36a4.77a
1957MW gdp170.4207.73a4.59a
1958MW gdp173.3377.43a4.30a
1959MW gdp176.3057.25a3.42a
1960MW gdp179.3237.73a4.08a
1961MW gdp181.5887.59a3.85a
1962MW gdp183.8817.78a3.50a
1963MW gdp186.2047.70a3.49a
1964MW gdp188.5557.34a3.54a
1965MW gdp190.9376.79a3.54a
1966MW gdp193.3487.04a3.82a
1967MW gdp195.7907.39a4.08a
1968MW gdp198.2637.55a3.15a
1969MW gdp200.7668.86a3.73a
1970MW gdp203.3028.71a3.16a
1971MW gdp205.5157.65a2.38a
1972MW gdp207.7527.65a2.60a
1973MW gdp210.0137.47a2.62a
1974MW gdp212.2997.93a2.58a
1975MW gdp214.6097.47a2.48a
1976MW gdp216.9457.21a2.27a
1977MW gdp219.3077.76a2.70a
1978MW gdp221.6947.89a2.61a
1979MW gdp224.1078.50a2.56a
1980MW gdp226.5468.75a2.32a
1981MW gdp228.6709.14a1.96a
1982MW gdp230.8159.15a1.51a
1983MW gdp232.9798.17a1.05a
1984MW gdp235.1647.59a1.45a
1985MW gdp237.3697.93a1.45a
1986MW gdp239.5957.82a1.42a
1987MW gdp241.8428.29a1.77a
1988MW gdp244.1107.87a1.85a
1989MW gdp246.3998.13a1.88a
1990MW gdp248.7108.05a1.61a
1991MW gdp251.8027.81a1.64a
1992MW gdp254.9337.50a1.58a
1993MW gdp258.1037.64a1.76a
1994MW gdp261.3127.66a1.98a
1995MW gdp264.5617.96a2.12a
1996MW gdp267.8508.37a2.19a
1997MW gdp271.1808.85a2.19a
1998MW gdp274.5529.42a2.15a
1999MW gdp277.9669.40a1.97a
2000MW gdp282.17210.09a2.08a
2001MW gdp285.0829.67a1.47a
2002MW gdp287.8048.07a1.39a
2003MW gdp290.3267.12a1.18a
2004MW gdp293.0466.82a1.60a
2005MW gdp295.5077.35a2.20a
2006MW gdp298.1097.80a2.65a
2007MW gdp300.7338.29a2.64a
2008MW gdp303.3808.02a2.13a
2009MW gdp306.0516.55a0.99a
2010MW gdp308.7466.20a1.32a

Legend:
i - interpolated between actual reported values
a - actual reported

Data Sources for 1910:
GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
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

Data Sources for 2010:
GDP: Measuring Worth - US GDP
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years

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Data Sources for 1910_2010:

Sources for 1910:

See State GDP Information
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

Sources for 2010:

See State GDP Information
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
Guesstimated” by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years

> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.

State and Local Spending for Individual States from 1957 to 1991

On June 15, 2013 usgovernmentspending.com loaded state and local spending and revenue for individual states going back to 1957.

Up to now, we have provided state and local finances from the present back to 1992 using data provided by the Census Bureau here.  But the Census Bureau also has data on individual states going back to 1957 here in file Govt_Finances.zip.

There is a break in data series at 1991-92.  The Census Bureau prior to 1992 has fewer line items than the post-1992 data.  There is also a break at 1976-77.  The Census Bureau prior to 1977 has fewer line items than the post-1977 data.    Typically, the data in reports for earlier years is reported in an aggregate item that sums up the detailed items in the more recent data reports.

These breaks in data have produced "notches" in some of the data series, and we have done some "juggle-ology" to produce smoother data series, as detailed below.

One problem in the pre-1992 data is that Medicaid is not broken out of welfare.  Up to now, for pre 1992 years we have estimated Medicaid expenses for all states combined based upon the assumption that the intergovernmental transfers to health care all apply to Medicaid and can be subtracted from the gross welfare expenditures to produce welfare net of Medicaid.  For each state, therefore, we have broken down pre-1992 gross welfare expenditures  between net welfare and Medicaid based upon the overall ratio for all states between net welfare (gross welfare less health care intergovernmental transfer) and Medicaid (health care intergovernmental transfer).

Another problem that the pre-1992 data seems to include judicial and legal system expenditures under "General Control" in the "General Government" category.  Data since 1992 has separate data series for judicial and legal system expenditures and we showed it under "Protection" in the default data view.  We have therefore created a new "default" view with judicial and legal system expenditures included under "General Government."  The old default view -- now labeled "old" -- has the judicial and legal system expenditures included under "Protection."  Typically, any links you have saved previous to June 15, 2013 will categorize data under the old default view.  New links will use the new default view, unless you select the old default view.

For 1958-60 combined state-and-local data only is reported in the Census Bureau data. So we have estimated state data and local data by interpolation from 1957 and 1961.

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