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Each federal budget includes estimated receipts for the fiscal year in progress and for five future fiscal years.
FY22 Federal Budget Revenue Estimates
for Fiscal Years 2021 - 2026
| 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. US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using the dropdown control at the bottom of the table. US Budget Year: By default, the table displays budgeted and estimated numbers in the current US Budget submitted to the Congress by the president. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using the dropdown control at the bottom of the table. | ||
| US Federal Government FY 22 Budget Estimated Revenue in $ trillion nominal | ||
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| Estimated Revenue from US Federal FY 22 Budget | ||||||||||
| FY 2021 Revenue | FY 2022 Revenue | FY 2023 Revenue | FY 2024 Revenue | FY 2025 Revenue | FY 2026 Revenue | |||||
| [+] | Income Taxes | 1.97 | 2.41 | 2.82 | 2.94 | 3.11 | 3.34 | 
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| [+] | Social Insurance Taxes | 1.30 | 1.46 | 1.53 | 1.59 | 1.65 | 1.71 |
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| [+] | Ad valorem Taxes | 0.21 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.21 |
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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 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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| [+] | Business and Other Revenue | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
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| [+] | Balance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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| [+] | Total Direct Revenue | 3.58 | 4.17 | 4.64 | 4.83 | 5.04 | 5.33 |
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| [+] | Federal Deficit | 3.67 | 1.84 | 1.37 | 1.36 | 1.47 | 1.41 |
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| [+] | Gross Public Debt | 30.23 | 32.45 | 34.03 | 35.61 | 37.19 | 38.67 | | ||
| Revenues: 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. b - budgeted estimate in US FY22 budget e - estimated by usgovernmentspending.com Data Sources for 2021: Data Sources for 2026: | ||||||||||
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
The table shows overall budgeted federal receipts for major functions for the next five years, as estimated in the historical tables in the current presidential budget.
You can change the budget to be analyzed 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 2021_2026:
Sources for 2021:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
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
Sources for 2026:
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Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 7.1
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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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