Monthly state sales tax collections is an experimental dataset published by the U.S. Census Bureau. It provides data for collections from sales taxes including motor fuel taxes. Data reported for a specific month generally represent sales taxes collected on sales made during the prior month. Tax collections primarily rely on unaudited data collected from existing state reports or state data sources available from and posted on the Internet. Secondarily, states report the data via the Quarterly Survey of State and Local Tax Revenue. Data are updated monthly, but due to differing reporting cycles data for some states may lag.
This dataset has the following 9 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| state | state | text | State name | Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California view top 100 |
| month | month | text | Month | September August December February January view top 100 |
| year | year | number | Year | 2020 2021 2022 2023 2019 view top 100 |
| tax type | tax_type | text | Tax type | motor fuel view top 100 |
| value | value | number | State tax collections ($) | 9600000.000000000000 11000000.000000000000 10700000.000000000000 10200000.000000000000 10600000.000000000000 view top 100 |
| fips state | fips_state | text | State FIPS code | 1 10 11 12 13 view top 100 |
| numeric month | numeric_month | number | Month number | 12 2 1 4 5 view top 100 |
| note | note | text | Note | view top 100 |
| id | id | text | Unique identifier | 10_2019_11 10_2019_12 10_2019_4 10_2019_5 10_2019_6 view top 100 |