Where My Taxes Go

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Where do your taxes go?

Type your income. You get an itemised receipt of what your income tax paid for, split by what the government actually spent.

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Your biggest line is Social Security: $1,686.49 (22% of your tax).

Where My Taxes Go

United States · tax year 2026

Income$75,000.00
Federal income tax$7,670.00

Paid for

  1. Social Security$1,686.49
  2. Medicare$1,063.43
  3. Health$1,044.40Medicaid, ACA subsidies, public health, research
  4. Net interest on the debt$1,035.31
  5. National defense$978.00
  6. Income security$748.54SNAP, SSI, tax credits, unemployment, federal pensions
  7. Veterans benefits and services$402.41
  8. Transportation$155.56
  9. 9 smaller items$555.86
Total tax$7,670.00

10.2% of income · $21.01 a day

Your tax spread in proportion to United States government spending by function, FY2025 (U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement). Estimate: single filer, standard deduction, 2026 federal brackets. Federal income tax only.

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Since you opened this page, the US federal government has spent about

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An estimate, not a live feed: FY2025 outlays of $7.01 trillion averaged $222,285 a second, and this counter runs at that average.

Where FY2025 spending went

Find federal money near you

A state, a city, a university, or a country that gets US aid.

What $1 buys

50¢ of every federal dollar goes to Social Security, Medicare and health

Each coin is one cent of FY2025 federal spending by function. Hover or tap a row for the dollar amount.

  1. 22¢Social Security
  2. 14¢Medicare
  3. 14¢Health
  4. 13¢Net interest on the debt
  5. 13¢National defense
  6. 10¢Income security
  7. 5¢Veterans benefits and services
  8. 2¢Transportation
  9. 7¢Everything else (9 smaller functions)

And where that dollar came from

  • 75¢ from taxes and other receipts
  • 25¢ borrowed

Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9, FY2025. Shares of gross function outlays; the borrowed share is outlays minus receipts, divided by outlays. FY2025 budget in detail.

Does your state give or take?

For every $1 the IRS collected in a state in FY2025, how much came back as federal contracts, grants, loans and direct payments? Across all states it was $0.76, so the map compares each state with that figure, not with $1.

New Mexico gets the most back per $1 of federal tax, New Jersey the least

Federal awards per $1 of federal tax collected, FY2025. Select a state to open its page.

Most back per $1

New Mexico$2.93
West Virginia$2.55
Mississippi$2.39
Alaska$2.34
Hawaii$1.77

Least back per $1

New Jersey$0.47
Minnesota$0.48
Nebraska$0.49
Washington$0.51
Massachusetts$0.52

All 51: $0.76 per $1.

All 51 states as a table
StateIRS collectionsFederal awardsPer $1
New Mexico$13.9B$40.7B$2.93
West Virginia$9.3B$23.8B$2.55
Mississippi$16.2B$38.6B$2.39
Alaska$7.9B$18.5B$2.34
Hawaii$12.5B$22.0B$1.77
Alabama$39.6B$68.7B$1.74
Virginia$125.9B$204.7B$1.62
Maine$13.2B$21.1B$1.60
South Carolina$44.5B$63.5B$1.43
Vermont$6.5B$8.9B$1.37
Oklahoma$39.1B$49.4B$1.26
Arizona$81.7B$98.0B$1.20
Idaho$18.5B$21.8B$1.18
Kentucky$54.0B$63.6B$1.18
District of Columbia$41.7B$48.7B$1.17
Oregon$45.5B$51.7B$1.14
Maryland$94.4B$103.9B$1.10
Montana$15.0B$15.4B$1.03
North Dakota$10.3B$10.5B$1.02
Iowa$36.7B$36.4B$0.99
North Carolina$127.9B$126.7B$0.99
Michigan$111.9B$108.9B$0.97
Louisiana$58.0B$56.1B$0.97
Connecticut$75.7B$73.1B$0.97
New Hampshire$17.9B$17.0B$0.95
Kansas$33.4B$30.8B$0.92
Indiana$82.7B$72.6B$0.88
Pennsylvania$188.9B$162.2B$0.86
Nevada$38.7B$33.1B$0.85
Tennessee$94.3B$78.0B$0.83
Arkansas$42.0B$34.5B$0.82
Wyoming$8.6B$7.0B$0.82
Wisconsin$76.4B$61.7B$0.81
South Dakota$14.4B$11.4B$0.79
Missouri$94.9B$74.2B$0.78
Rhode Island$17.8B$13.7B$0.77
Georgia$145.1B$105.0B$0.72
Colorado$96.6B$67.7B$0.70
Florida$358.0B$247.4B$0.69
Utah$43.0B$27.9B$0.65
Texas$479.5B$307.9B$0.64
New York$411.4B$243.0B$0.59
Ohio$210.2B$124.2B$0.59
California$766.5B$440.4B$0.57
Illinois$227.7B$125.3B$0.55
Delaware$22.2B$12.2B$0.55
Massachusetts$179.8B$93.0B$0.52
Washington$172.3B$88.5B$0.51
Nebraska$44.2B$21.8B$0.49
Minnesota$126.3B$60.2B$0.48
New Jersey$192.1B$91.2B$0.47
How this is measured, and what it leaves out

Tax in: IRS gross collections for FY2025 (all federal taxes the IRS collects, before refunds), which the IRS assigns to the filer's address and, for businesses, to the principal office. States where business taxes are an unusually large part of collections, such as Nebraska, Delaware, Washington, look as if they pay more than their residents do. Employers near a state line may withhold for people who live next door.

Money back: federal award obligations for FY2025 on USAspending.gov by place of performance, excluding Medicare (recorded where claims are processed, not where patients live). Federal salaries, interest on the debt and spending agencies do not report as awards are not included. That is why the all-state figure is $0.76 per $1 rather than the full budget ratio.

This is a comparison of two official datasets, not a full accounting of who pays for what.

Sources: IRS Data Book, Table 5 (public domain); USAspending.gov. Federal money per resident, every state.

The biggest recipients

Who gets the most federal money

California received $440B, more than any other state

Federal award obligations, FY2025, excluding Medicare.

California$440.4B
Texas$307.9B
Florida$247.4B
New York$243.0B
Virginia$204.7B
Pennsylvania$162.2B
North Carolina$126.7B
Illinois$125.3B
All 56 states and territories

Sources: USAspending.gov; ForeignAssistance.gov. Methods.

How spending changed since 2015

Interest on the debt now costs more than national defense

Federal outlays by function, billions of nominal dollars, FY2015–FY2025. Interest grew 4.3 times, defense 1.6 times; interest passed defense in FY2024.

  • Interest on the debt
  • National defense
  • Social Security, Medicare, health, income security
$0B$500B$1T$1.5T$2T20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Social SecurityInterest on the debtNational defense$0B$500B$1T$1.5T$2TFY20151719212325
View the data as a table
FunctionFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Social Security$888B$916B$945B$988B$1,044B$1,096B$1,135B$1,219B$1,354B$1,461B$1,581B
Medicare$546B$595B$597B$589B$651B$776B$696B$755B$848B$874B$997B
Health$482B$511B$533B$519B$585B$748B$797B$914B$889B$912B$979B
Interest on the debt$223B$241B$263B$325B$376B$345B$352B$475B$659B$882B$970B
National defense$591B$595B$600B$665B$688B$726B$755B$767B$821B$874B$917B
Income security$509B$515B$504B$496B$515B$1,263B$1,649B$865B$774B$671B$702B

Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9, year-end statements. Not adjusted for inflation. Federal spending year by year.

Sources

  1. US spending by function: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9, FY2025. Public domain.
  2. Other countries: HM Treasury PESA 2026, Statistics Canada Table 10-10-0024-01, Australian Budget 2026-27 BP1, NZ Treasury Financial Statements; tax rules from each tax authority, as listed on each calculator.
  3. States, cities and universities: USAspending.gov; population: U.S. Census Bureau. Federal tax by state: IRS Data Book, Table 5. Foreign aid: ForeignAssistance.gov.
  4. Sources and methods. Amounts are nominal.