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The bill increases state-level and public transparency about federal taxes paid and federal spending received through annual, published estimates, at the cost of added federal reporting burden, methodological uncertainty that can be misused politically, and potential privacy/confidentiality risks.
State and local governments (and the taxpayers they represent) receive annual, comparable estimates showing how much federal tax revenue is paid by residents and businesses and how much federal spending flows to their state, improving transparency for budgeting and advocacy.
Taxpayers, policymakers, and researchers gain annual, publicly posted state-by-state economic calculations (published on the BEA website), increasing public access to data for oversight, research, and planning.
Creates a recurring 180‑day reporting deadline that promotes timely, regular publication of the estimates so decisionmakers have up-to-date annual numbers.
Federal agencies (BEA, OMB, Commerce, Treasury) must do additional annual reporting work to produce and publish the estimates, creating administrative costs that may ultimately be borne by taxpayers.
The methodology needed to allocate business taxes and contract outlays by activity/location requires modeling with substantial uncertainty; those model-based estimates could be misinterpreted or treated as exact figures in public debates.
Model-based estimates could be used to exert political pressure or justify reallocation of funds despite known limitations, potentially producing unfair or misguided budgeting decisions.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires BEA and OMB to calculate and publish annual state-level Federal tax-burden and Federal-outlay estimates and deliver a joint report within 180 days after each calendar year starts.
Introduced December 16, 2025 by Bill Foster · Last progress December 16, 2025
Requires two federal agencies to compute and publish annual, state-level estimates showing how much each State pays in Federal taxes and how much each State receives in Federal outlays. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (Commerce) will calculate state tax burdens (allocating individual taxes to residents and business-paid taxes by each State’s share of business activity). The Office of Management and Budget (working with CEA and Treasury) will calculate state Federal outlays (allocating contract awards to States where performance occurs). The two agencies must submit and publish a joint report on the BEA website no later than 180 days after the start of each calendar year.