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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 $11.81 trillion.
US Total Government Revenue Breakdown
in $2017 per capita
Government revenues are collected from only a few types of source.
Per Capita Total Government Revenue | |||
| Income Taxes | $11,240 / person |  | |
| Social Insurance Taxes | + $8,123 / person | | |
| Ad valorem Taxes | + $7,896 / person | | |
| Fees and Charges | + $2,466 / person | | |
| Business and Other Revenue | + $1,890 / person | | |
| Total Direct Revenue | $34,374 / person | | |
| Federal Deficit | + $6,010 / 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.
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Data Sources for 2026:
GDP, GO: GDP, GO Sources
Federal: Fed. Budget: Hist. Tables 3.2, 5.1, 7.1
State and Local: State and Local Gov. Finances
'Guesstimated' by projecting the latest change in reported spending forward to future years
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State and Local Finances for 2024
On August 7, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau State and Local Government Finances summaries for FY 2024 released in July 2026. (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 FY2024 are now actual historical spending as reported by the Census Bureau.
We have updated the "guesstimated" state and local finances for FY2025-31 as indicated in our "guesstimate" blog entries.
We have also updated data for individual local government units with data for 2024.
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.
On July 2, 2026 we updated the state and local spending and revenue for FY 2024 using the new Census Bureau S ...
On June 16, 2026, the Center for Medicare Services released its annual ...
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