Where My Taxes Go

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Where your $7,670 of tax goes

Estimate: single filer, standard deduction, 2026 federal brackets. Federal income tax only. Stream width is the amount; tap a stream for details.

Your income$75,000Take-home pay$67,330zoomed in ×27Your federal income tax · 10.2%$7,670Transportation$156Natural resources andenvironment$94Administration ofjustice$91Community and regionaldevelopment$90Education, training,employment and socialservices$74Agriculture$53International affairs$48General science, space,and technology$45General government$39Energy$22Social Security$1,686 · 22¢Medicare$1,063 · 14¢Health$1,044 · 14¢Interest on the debt$1,035 · 13¢National defense$978 · 13¢Income security$749 · 10¢Veterans benefits andservices$402 · 5¢Everything else$711 · 9¢Your income$75,000Take-home pay$67,330zoomed ×5.1Your federal income tax$7,670 · 10.2%Social Security$1,686 · 22¢Medicare$1,063 · 14¢Health$1,044 · 14¢Interest on the debt$1,035 · 13¢National defense$978 · 13¢Income security$749 · 10¢Veterans benefits andservices$402 · 5¢Everything else$711 · 9¢
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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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Social Security

$1,686 of your tax, 22¢ of every dollar

  • That is $4.62 a day, or $140.54 a month.
  • The US federal government spent $1.58 trillion on Social Security in FY2025: about $50,123 a second.
  • Covering one hour of it would take about 110,000 people paying the same tax as you.
Where FY2025 federal spending went

Source: Your tax spread in proportion to United States government spending by function, FY2025 (U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement). Methods.

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

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Your federal tax receipt
$13,408

federal income tax plus Social Security and Medicare on $75,000 (single, 2026). Type your own wages for an itemised receipt of where it went.

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Property tax by county
0.94%

US effective rate: median $3,119 a year on a $332,700 home. Rates, median bills and a calculator for every state and 3,133 counties.

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State income tax calculator
50 states + DC

Federal, state and FICA tax on your wages and your take-home pay for 2026 and 2025, with the state's brackets and deductions.

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Tax numbers 2026
$16,100 / $32,200

2026 standard deduction, single / married filing jointly. Brackets, 401(k) and IRA limits, HSA, Social Security wage base and more, with the IRS source for each.

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Where each federal dollar comes from and goes

25¢ of every federal dollar in FY2025 was borrowed

Federal money in and out, FY2025. Stream widths are dollars; labels give cents of every dollar. 49¢ went to Social Security, Medicare and health. Hover or tap a stream for the amount.

Federal spending, FY2025$7.19TIndividual income taxes$2.66T · 37¢Payroll taxes$1.75T · 24¢Corporate income taxes$452B · 6¢Customs duties$195B · 3¢Excise, estate and other$183B · 3¢Offsetting receipts$179B · 2¢Borrowed$1.78T · 25¢Social Security$1.58T · 22¢Medicare$997B · 14¢Health$979B · 14¢Interest on the debt$970B · 13¢National defense$917B · 13¢Income security$702B · 10¢Veterans benefits andservices$377B · 5¢Everything else$667B · 9¢Federal spending, FY2025$7.19TBorrowed$1.78T · 25¢Offsetting receipts$179B · 2¢Excise, estate and other$183B · 3¢Customs duties$195B · 3¢Corporate income taxes$452B · 6¢Payroll taxes$1.75T · 24¢Individual income taxes$2.66T · 37¢Social Security$1.58T · 22¢Medicare$997B · 14¢Health$979B · 14¢Interest on the debt$970B · 13¢National defense$917B · 13¢Income security$702B · 10¢Veterans benefits andservices$377B · 5¢Everything else$667B · 9¢
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Money inFY2025Per $1
Individual income taxes$2.66T36.9¢
Payroll taxes$1.75T24.3¢
Corporate income taxes$452B6.3¢
Customs duties$195B2.7¢
Excise, estate and other$183B2.6¢
Offsetting receipts$179B2.5¢
Borrowed$1.78T24.7¢
Money outFY2025Per $1
Social Security$1.58T22.0¢
Medicare$997B13.9¢
Health$979B13.6¢
Interest on the debt$970B13.5¢
National defense$917B12.8¢
Income security$702B9.8¢
Veterans benefits and services$377B5.2¢
Everything else$667B9.3¢

Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9 (receipts by source and outlays by function), FY2025 year-end. Borrowed is outlays minus receipts. Function amounts are gross; offsetting receipts, which the Treasury records as negative spending, are shown as money in. 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. Federal taxes paid by state. Donor states and taker states.

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.

  • Social Security
  • Medicare
  • Health
  • Interest on the debt
  • National defense
  • Income security
$0B$500B$1T$1.5T$2T20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Social SecurityMedicareHealthInterest on the debtNational defenseIncome security$0B$500B$1T$1.5T$2TFY20151719212325
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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.