About the data

Who Taxes Me describes each government from its own documents. Every section names the document it came from and the day it was read.

Where the figures come from

Money figures come from a government's own adopted budget or audited annual report, or from the United States Census of Governments where that is the figure on file. Tax rates come from the body that certifies them, such as a state comptroller or a county appraisal roll. The people who decide come from the government's own pages. Each page says which.

What a page does not do

A page never works out a bill. It does not grade, rank or score a government. It shows what the government itself prints, with the year and the scope beside every figure.

If you look up an address

The search box takes a street address as well as a name. The address goes to 2zips, our sister site, which finds the governments that cover it. 2zips keeps the address for up to 90 days to speed up the next lookup. The service it uses to match addresses sees it too. Who Taxes Me keeps nothing: the address is not in the page link, the page title or your browser's storage. If you ask to hear when a government gets a page, 2zips keeps your email with the address so it can write to you.

What is covered

6637 governments have a page today, in 51 states. A page goes live once at least one tax the government levies, and its rate, are on file with the document that sets them. What it collects and spends, who decides, when they meet and how to reach them are added as they are found. Until then the page says each one is not on file yet. A government with no tax on file yet has a holding page that says so.

Corrections

If a figure or a name is wrong, write to hello@whotaxesme.com with the page and the document that shows the right value.