Within each selected county area, all local property tax authorities receive a form, with the number of tax authorities in an area ranging from one to hundreds. National estimates are a summation of state and weighted local government property tax data based on survey results. Imputation of non-property tax collections in smaller local governments is based on data collected from the annual finance survey. The reports contain national totals by type of tax with historical comparisons and state totals for major taxes in the state governments. Revisions to historical data reflect the replacement of estimates with actual totals and all data become final after 1 year.
Reports consist of viewable tables and data files that users can download from the Internet.
USES The Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Federal Reserve Board use the data for econometric models of the economy. State and local governments use the data for trend analysis in various types of taxes and for regional comparisons. Business and financial market analysts follow tax trends through these data.