Arizona · 2025 taxes

Where your tax dollars go

Enter a few numbers and get an itemized receipt of the taxes you pay in a year, and what the federal government, the state, your county and your city spend them on.

Two homes, or moved this year?
  • Pick your main home: where you live most of the year, vote, and file your state tax return. Your ID usually matches, but what counts is where you actually live.
  • Sales tax goes to wherever you shop. This receipt assumes you shop near home.
  • Property tax on each home goes to that home's local governments. Enter only your main home's value or bill here.

All 92 Arizona cities and towns. Pick "Unincorporated" if you live outside city limits.

Pick 2025 if you're using last year's tax return. Head of household is usually a single parent who pays most of the home's costs.

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Paychecks, before taxes. For couples, add both incomes.

Where to find this
  • Last year's tax return: Form 1040, line 1z (total wages). If you filed jointly, it already includes both of you.
  • W-2 form: box 1. If you had more than one job, add the W-2s together.
  • Pay stub: multiply the gross pay on one check by your paychecks per year: 26 if paid every two weeks, 24 if twice a month, 52 if weekly.
Retired, self-employed, or other income?
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Profit after business costs: Schedule C, line 31. Includes freelancing, rideshare and delivery apps.

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Yearly total, before Medicare is taken out: box 5 of form SSA-1099.

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Taxable amount: box 2a of form 1099-R. Leave out Roth withdrawals, which aren't taxed.

Property tax
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We estimate a yearly bill of about 0.55% of the value.

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Phoenix · Maricopa County
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    A rough estimate to show where tax money goes, not tax advice. Your actual taxes depend on deductions, credits and other income.

    How this is estimated

    Tax money goes into shared pots, so no one can trace your exact dollars. Each line shows your share of what that government spends, in proportion to its budget.

    How the math works, and sources

    Where you live: the receipt uses one place, your main home. If you have two homes, each home's property tax goes to that home's local governments, and sales tax goes to wherever you shop. In Indiana, county income tax goes to the county you lived in on January 1.

    Tax year: pick 2025 if you're using last year's tax return, or 2026 to estimate this year. The tax math uses that year's brackets, deductions and rates, including local rates that changed partway through 2025 (averaged over the year). Federal spending is that year's actual spending (the federal year runs October to September). State and local spending follows each government's current budget for both years. Budgets usually shift only a few percent from year to year.

    Federal: tax brackets and standard deduction for the year you pick, including the extra deductions for people 65 and older, the child tax credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. It assumes you take the standard deduction and have no other income (like interest, dividends or capital gains) or other credits. Up to 85% of Social Security benefits can be taxed, depending on your other income. Self-employment income pays both halves of Social Security and Medicare tax, minus the usual deductions for it. Social Security and Medicare taxes are shown going to those programs. Refundable credits that come back to you as a refund are shown separately, not subtracted from the receipt. Income tax is split by what the government actually spent on everything except Social Security, which is paid from its own tax, in the federal year you pick (fiscal 2025 or 2026), by area and by program, from the U.S. Treasury's final Monthly Treasury Statement for that year. The government also borrows, so total spending is larger than taxes collected.

    Gas and car registration: gas spending is turned into gallons using an average pump price for the year you pick, then taxed per gallon. Every gallon includes the 18.4-cent federal gas tax, which goes to the federal Highway Trust Fund for highway and transit grants to states. Gas isn't charged regular sales tax, so leave it out of your shopping.

    Federal sources: U.S. Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement, FY2025 and FY2026 · 2025 IRS brackets · 2026 IRS brackets · Federal gas tax (FHWA)