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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 $11.17 trillion.
US Total Government Revenue Breakdown
in $2009 per capita
Government revenues are collected from only a few types of source.
Per Capita Total Government Revenue | |||
| Income Taxes | $13,760 / person |  | |
| Social Insurance Taxes | + $5,985 / person | | |
| Ad valorem Taxes | + $7,416 / person | | |
| Fees and Charges | + $2,841 / person | | |
| Business and Other Revenue | + $1,949 / person | | |
| Total Direct Revenue | $32,670 / person | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $4,460 / person | | |
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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: 'guesstimated', as reported by the Office of Management and Budget and projected by usgovernmentspending.com.
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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.
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.
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Data Sources for 2026:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
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'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported revenue forward to future years
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State FY25 Taxes Update
On November 22, 2025 usgovernmentspending.com updated FY2025 state revenue with quarterly tax data released by the US Census Bureau on September 2, 2025. Local tax data was updated by assuming that local taxes for 2024 changed by the same percent as state taxes of the same type.
| $ billion | FY2025 Estimate | FY2025 Actual |
| State Income Tax Revenue | $908 | $798 |
| Total State Revenue | $2,815 | $3.072 |
State and local spending projections for FY2026 to FY2029 have been reestimated using the "Guesstimate" method.
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its Gross State Product (GSP) data for 2024 on March 29, 2025.Usgovernmen ...
On October 16, 2025, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and ...
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