Idaho state taxes per resident

Organization

U.S. Census Bureau

Dataset

State taxes per resident (computed by Understand Idaho)

Geography

Nation and states (state government only; excludes local governments; DC is not a state government in this survey and has no rows)

Time coverage

FY2005-FY2025

Update frequency

Annual

Published

April 15, 2026

Retrieved

September 8, 2026

Original file

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/stc/datasets/historical/State-Government-Tax-Collections.zip

License

Public domain. U.S. federal government work.

Our copy

derived-government-tax_per_capita, built by lib/derived.ts

Caveats

• Computed by Understand Idaho from Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC) and Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 (with Vintage 2019 for 2010-2019); it is not a figure the publisher releases.
• State government only. Local property taxes and local-option sales taxes are excluded, which is why Property Taxes is a small (or suppressed) figure for most states, including Idaho.
• Values are in thousands of dollars as published (unit usd_thousands), current dollars as originally reported, not adjusted for price or wage changes.
• Fiscal-year windows differ by state: most states' fiscal year ends June 30, but Alabama and Michigan end September 30, New York ends March 31, and Texas ends August 31. Comparing the same period label (e.g. FY2024) across states compares different twelve-month windows.
• This dataset starts at FY2005. The source states that the Census Bureau implemented significant changes to its state-government finance classification system effective with FY2005 data (new variables, discontinued ones, redefined coverage); earlier years back to FY1902 exist in the source under a different, not-directly-comparable classification and are not included here.
• government.tax_collections uses the 26 detail tax-item codes Census defines (T01, T09-T19, T20-T29, T40-T41, T50-T53, T99; at most 25 are active in any one fiscal year). The intermediate subtotal categories the source also publishes (Total Sales and Gross Receipts Taxes, Total Selective Sales Tax, Total License Taxes, the Motor Vehicle and Operators License subtotal, Total Income Taxes, Total Other Taxes) are not included as categories: each is a sum of detail categories already present, and mixing a subtotal with its own children would double an amount if both were added together.
• T14 (Pari-mutuels Sales Tax) was folded into T18 (Sports Betting Sales Tax) beginning FY2023; a state's pari-mutuel tax revenue can appear under T14 before FY2023 and under T18 from FY2023 on.
• A cell the source flags as suppressed (X) or not published that year (-11111) is omitted from the observations, never recorded as zero or interpolated from another year.
• The source file carries no preliminary/revised flag column; every observation here is recorded as status final.
• government.tax_collections_total is the source's own published 'Total Taxes' figure, not a sum computed by this puller from the category detail.
• Population totals for 2010-2019 are the Vintage 2019 intercensal series (nst-est2019-alldata.csv and co-est2019-alldata.csv), the Census Bureau's final pre-2020-Census estimates, released 2019-12-30 (states/nation) and 2020-03-26 (counties). Totals for 2020-2025 are the Vintage 2025 series (NST-EST2025-ALLDATA.csv and co-est2025-alldata.csv), released 2026-01-27 (states/nation) and 2026-03-26 (counties). The two series are built independently around the 2010 and 2020 Censuses respectively and are not reconciled to each other, so a value for 2019 and a value for 2020 at the same geography can show an implausible jump or drop that is a seam between series, not real population change.
• City (incorporated place) totals cover 2020-2025 only, from the Vintage 2025 sub-county file (sub-est2025_16.csv), released 2026-05-14; no 2010-2019 city series is included.
• Components of change (births, deaths, natural change, domestic migration, international migration, net migration) are published only for the nation, Idaho, and Idaho's 44 counties, not for the other 49 states, matching what this site pulls.
• The component period for estimate year Y normally runs from July 1 of year Y-1 to June 30 of year Y. The single exception is 2020: its components run from April 1, 2020 (Census Day) to June 30, 2020, a 3-month stub, because it is the first estimate after the 2020 Census; every 2020 component observation carries a note saying so.
• 2010-2019 files label the births-minus-deaths column NATURALINC; 2020-2025 files label it NATURALCHG. Both are mapped to metric population.natural_change; the underlying definition (births minus deaths over the period) is unchanged.
• The ten largest Idaho places are Boise City, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Coeur d'Alene, Twin Falls, Post Falls and Rexburg, ranked by each place's own 2025 Vintage 2025 estimate; their place FIPS codes were read directly from sub-est2025_16.csv, not assumed.
• Group quarters estimates, the RESIDUAL column, and the published birth/death/migration rates (per 1,000 population) are not pulled.
• Puerto Rico, which appears in the national/state files as SUMLEV 040 STATE 72, is skipped because it is not in data/geographies.json.