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Federal Taxation and Spending by State
This is a table of the total federal tax revenue by state collected by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in 2007 and the total federal expenditure in each state in Fiscal Year 2007. US Census population data are used to calculate per capita figures. The difference between the per capita revenue and spending figures is the net contribution of each state to the federal budget. The rank is based on highest net contributors.

Revenue is gross collections which indicates the total federal tax revenue collected by the IRS from each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The figure includes all individual and corporate income taxes, estate taxes, gift taxes, and excise taxes. This table does not include federal tax revenue data from U.S. Armed Forces personnel stationed overseas, U.S. territories other than Puerto Rico, and U.S. citizens and legal residents living abroad.

Spending includes all federal outlays consisting of retirement, disability, and other direct payments; grants; procurement; and salaries and wages. Spending does not include interest on the debt and other spending not allocated by state.

The last column is added in order to illustrate the widely discussed trend of Democratic-leaning states tending to be net contributors to the federal budget while Republican-leaning states are more often net recipients of federal spending.

All state totals are in millions of dollars and all per capita averages are in dollars. All columns are sortable both high to low and low to high.