Your Tax Receipt

Your taxes pay for a lot: Social Security, highways, national parks, medical research. Here's the receipt. Enter what you paid and see how it was spent, itemized line by line from the Treasury's own published numbers. Free and private, and nothing you type ever leaves your device.

Federal income taxForm 1040, line 24 ('total tax')

Social Security taxW-2, box 4

Medicare taxW-2, box 6

State income taxW-2, box 17 (optional)

Your stateOptional: adds a state receipt

Count the employer half of payroll taxEconomists generally agree workers bear this cost through lower wages.

Enter what you paid (or your income) first.