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Where your federal tax dollar went
On recent Form 1040s, line 22 (tax after nonrefundable credits) is your federal income tax. Refundable credits, such as the EITC or the refundable part of the child tax credit, mean what you finally paid can differ from the tax shown on your return.
$10,000.00 by share of FY2025 federal outlays
Source: OMB Historical Table 4.1
- Department of Health and Human Services25.6%$2,563.71
- Social Security Administration (Off-Budget)20.7%$2,069.33
- Department of the Treasury19.8%$1,984.97
- Department of Defense--Military Programs11.8%$1,181.54
- Department of Veterans Affairs5.1%$512.38
- Department of Agriculture3.1%$309.47
- Office of Personnel Management1.7%$174.48
- Department of Transportation1.7%$173.58
- Social Security Administration (On-Budget)1.7%$170.88
- Department of Homeland Security1.6%$156.89
- Other Defense--Civil Programs1.0%$104.07
- Department of Energy0.7%$71.15
- All other agencies (17)5.3%$527.55
- Total$10,000.00
This is a share of FY2025 federal outlays, not a record of where your particular dollars went: tax receipts are pooled, and no payment is earmarked for an agency. Each line is the agency’s net outlays in FY2025 divided by the sum of agency lines with positive net outlays, applied to the amount you entered and rounded so the lines add up to it exactly.
Federal outlays exceed federal revenue. In FY2025 the government spent $7.01 trillion in total and borrowed to cover the gap, so a share of your tax is not the same as the share of spending your tax financed. See the national debt.
Social Security and much of Medicare are funded mainly by payroll taxes and their trust funds, not by income tax, so this split shows each agency’s share of all federal spending, not what income tax specifically pays for.
Left out because their FY2025 net outlays were zero or negative (they took in more in fees, repayments or receipts than they paid out): General Services Administration, Executive Office of the President. OMB’s adjustment lines for undistributed offsetting receipts are also not agencies and are not included.
Source: OMB Historical Table 4.1, Outlays by Agency, actual FY2025 figures. More on the federal budget page.