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A comparison of federal receipts for FY 2024 estimated in various federal budgets against the actual receipts in FY 2024.
Federal Revenue Estimates vs. Actual Federal Revenue
for Fiscal Year 2024
| Units: By default, values are displayed in billions of dollars. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of dollars, percent of GDP, percent of federal total, percent of overall total, dollars per capita of population, and thousand dollars per capita of population. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current US government fiscal year. But you can select any 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 year to get close, then select the year you want. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading. | ||
| US Federal Government Receipts Budgeted vs. Actual | ||
| -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2024 in $ billion +1yr +5yr | ||
| Estimates for FY 2024 Federal Receipts in US Budgets | |||||||||||
| Estimate in FY20 Budget | Estimate in FY21 Budget | Estimate in FY22 Budget | Estimate in FY23 Budget | Estimate in FY24 Budget | Estimate in FY25 Budget | Actual 2024 | |||||
| [+] | Income Taxes | 2,812.9 | 2,772.1 | 2,936.3 | 3,042.7 | 3,056.2 | 3,116.2 | 2,955.9 | 
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| [+] | Social Insurance Taxes | 1,607.0 | 1,603.7 | 1,590.1 | 1,585.3 | 1,742.1 | 1,720.5 | 1,708.9 |
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| [+] | Ad valorem Taxes | 268.4 | 212.9 | 202.0 | 203.5 | 238.1 | 244.9 | 251.9 |
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| [+] Charts: Click on a to display a bar of data in a row or column of this table.Click on  to display a time-series chart of data in a row.[+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers. | Fees and Charges | ||||||||||
| [+] | Business and Other Revenue | 68.6 | 67.8 | 99.3 | 42.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
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| [+] | Balance | -4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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| [+] | Total Direct Revenue | 4,752.5 | 4,656.5 | 4,827.8 | 4,874.4 | 5,036.4 | 5,081.6 | 4,919.9 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 700.5 | 551.9 | 1,359.0 | 1,200.8 | 1,846.4 | 1,859.4 | 1,831.0 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 28,581.5 | 27,838.9 | 35,607.2 | 33,966.1 | 34,807.7 | 35,107.9 | 35,231.3 | | ||
| Revenue: Pie Chart: Click on a pie icon to display a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for federal, state and local, and overall revenue. Data Sources for 2024: | Switch to budget | ||||||||||
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.
Notes
Starting with the 1986 budget, the Office of Management and Budget provides six years of estimated receipts for each revenue source extending from the fiscal year in which the federal budget is published to five years into the future. For instance, the 1986 budget historical tables included estimates for FY85, FY86, FY87, FY88, FY89, and FY90. Starting with FY90, OMB will have made six estimates of revenue for each year before the actual receipts for a fiscal year are reported.
The table shows overall budgeted federal revenues for the specified fiscal year, as estimated in the historical tables in several presidential budgets. You can compare these estimates with the actual revenue for the fiscal year as reported in the budget historical tables after the specified fiscal year is over.
If the “actual” year shows many values as budgeted, it is because the details of actual receipts for the latest year have not yet been released.
You can change the year or drill down to view more detailed revenue information.
Data Sources: Federal revenue from Budget of the United States Government.
For a discussion of the sources of the government revenue data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.
Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.
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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 2024:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
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State and Local Finances for 2023
On September 11, 2025 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2023 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2023 released on July 31, 2025. (See also Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances). The release includes state and local spending for the United States as a whole and the 50 individual states and the District of Columbia.
State and local spending and revenue for FY2023 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau. In addition, the Census Bureau published updated tables for 2021 and 2022.
We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2024-30 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.
We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2023.
Beginning in 2022 the Census Bureau has changed the value for Line 56 Direct Expenditure and Line 7 General Revenue from own sources, as follows:
We have decided to end our publication of non-insurance trust cash and security holdings.
However, to keep the time series at usgovernmentspending.com consistent, we have decided to add insurance-trust values back into Line 56 and Line 7 values.
In March 2025 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2023 here and ...
On June 24, 2025, usgovernmentspending.com updated its data for agency debt from the Federal Reserve Board database. Data is now available for the period 1945-2024. You can see our Agency Debt page ...
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