America Public Resource · FY2025
Enter the federal taxes you paid. See an illustrative breakdown of how that amount maps to the federal government’s final fiscal year 2025 outlays.
Use the receipt
Use the federal taxes shown on your return—or any amount you want to understand. This is a spending-share calculator, not a tax estimator.
Illustrative allocation only. Federal receipts are not individually earmarked. Categories use their share of approximately $7.0 trillion in FY2025 outlays; components may not sum perfectly because published figures are rounded.
Read the fine print
The calculator divides the amount entered using the share of total FY2025 federal outlays represented by each broad spending category.
It uses final-year figures rather than a proposed budget. Amounts are rounded, so the calculator normalizes the published category totals to 100%.
Congressional Budget Office: The Federal Budget in Fiscal Year 2025. CBO published the infographic in March 2026 using data prepared for its review of FY2025 projections.
The receipt uses outlays: money actually paid by the government. Treasury explains why outlays differ from obligations in its Federal Spending guide.
USA.gov’s federal budget guide explains that mandatory spending is set by existing law, discretionary spending is controlled through appropriations, and interest is the cost of financing federal debt.
No. Federal receipts generally flow into the Treasury and are not tagged to an individual taxpayer. This tool makes the scale understandable by applying national spending shares to one amount.