Revenue Breakdown

Government Revenue Totals

Total Government Revenue in the United States -5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2012   +1yr +4yr
	Federal Direct Revenue	$2.5 trillion
	State Direct Revenue	$1.5 trillion
	Local Direct Reveue	$1.1 trillion
	Total Revenue	$5.1 trillion
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All numbers are for “direct revenue,” taxes and fees, etc. collected directly by the government entity. Revenues do not include intergovernmental transfers.

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• Create CHARTS of government revenue history here.
• Look at TABLES of revenue breakdown year-by-year for federal, state, and local here.
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What is the revenue data; where is it from?

• Federal revenue data begins in 1792.
• State and local revenue data begins in 1902.
• revenue data is from official government sources.
  Federal 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 measuringworth.com.
• Revenue data sources here.

Sources

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules

New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office

Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue

US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt

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.

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20th Century Revenue

US Revenue since 1950

Data Sources for 2012:

GDP: US Budget FY12 Table 10.1
Federal: Budget of the US Government
State: State and Local Gov. Finances

> data sources for other years
> data update schedule.

Federal Budget FY 13 Released

On February 13, 2012, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the historical tables in the FY13 federal budget. Actual revenue for FY 2011 and estimated revenue through FY 2017 come from Tables 2.1, 2.4, and 2.5. Actual spending for FY 2011 and estimated spending at the subfunction level through FY 2017 comes from Table 3.2. Federal debt estimates come from Table 7.1 and GDP estimates come from Table 10.1.

You can see you each line item changes from budget to budget here. You can compare budget estimates with actuals here.

Account level spending estimates through FY 2017 come from the outlays table in the Public Budget Database and will be updated in the next few days.

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