A Visualization of IRS Collections Since 1960

April 17th, 2014 by 
PK

On this page is a visualization of the sources for tax revenue collected by the IRS between fiscal years 1960-2013 in the United States. All data in the visualization comes from the IRS's 2013 Data Book.

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 IRS Tax Collections By Year, 1960-2013

Note that we ignored the time-frame switch in 1976 by dropping that data from the visualization. Read the data book for more information. All fiscal years from 1977 on are from October in the previous year through September of the listed year.

You can hover over any section of the graph to boil into data for the associated year. Here's the data for the 2013 fiscal year:

Business IncomeIndividual IncomeEstate and Trust IncomeEmployment TaxEstate TaxGift TaxExcise Taxes
$311,993,954.00$1,539,658,421.00$24,696,073.00$897,847,151.00$14,051,771.00$5,778,377.00$61,033,674.00

 

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PK

PK started DQYDJ in 2009 to research and discuss finance and investing and help answer financial questions. He's expanded DQYDJ to build visualizations, calculators, and interactive tools.

PK lives in New Hampshire with his wife, kids, and dog.

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