April 2014 California Personal Income Tax Daily Revenue Tracker

Last fiscal year, personal income taxes accounted for 67.3 percent of all state General Fund revenues. Of those receipts, 18.5 percent arrived during the month of April.

This year, as of the end of March, preliminary reports of General Fund receipts for the 2013-14 fiscal year totaled $42.8 billion, which is 2.9 percent higher than anticipated in the budget proposal released by Gov. Jerry Brown in January.

The governor's budget estimates a total of $10.9 billion in personal income tax will be collected in April. The chart below compares the running total to the $10.9 billion estimate of April personal income tax receipts. The total consists of personal income tax receipts minus refunds.

 


 

April 2014 chart


April 2014 Preliminary Report of California Personal Income Tax Revenues (In Thousands of Dollars)*

Date Daily Personal Income Taxes
(Receipts And Withholding Minus Refunds)
Fiscal 2013-14 Year-To-Date
Personal Income Tax Revenues
Fiscal 2012-13 Year-To-Date
Personal Income Tax Revenues
March Balance   $48,810,600 $43,304,452
April 1 17,400 42,828,000 43,304,452
April 2 407,300 43,235,300 43,380,140
April 3 184,200 43,419,500 43,817,688
April 4 229,300 43,648,800 44,036,498
April 5 *** *** 44,087,681
April 6 *** *** 44,087,681
April 7 445,800 44,094,600 44,087,681
April 8 89,800 44,184,400 44,579,757
April 9 225,800 44,440,200 44,675,080
April 10 103,500 44,543,700 44,949,947
April 11 385,800 44,929,500 45,206,472
April 12 *** *** 45,769,931
April 13 *** *** 45,769,931
April 14 400,700 45,330,200 45,769,931
April 15 1,045,700 46,375,900 46,617,567
April 16 2,675,400 49,051,300 49,173,903
April 17 1,589,000 50,640,300 52,113,256
April 18 734,700 51,375,000 53,302,060
April 19 *** *** 53,318,589
April 20 *** *** 53,318,589
April 21 348,100 51,723,100 53,318,589
April 22 407,900 52,131,000 54,155,980
April 23 315,800 52,446,800 54,836,826
April 24 424,300 52,871,100 55,132,224
April 25 624,100 53,495,200 55,422,556
April 26 *** *** 55,715,771
April 27 *** *** 55,715,771
April 28 (156,300) 53,338,900 55,715,771
April 29 235,200 53,574,100 55,631,650
April 30 190,300 53,764,400 55,778,450
Month-end Adjustment     (3,015)
Monthly Total $10,953,800 $53,764,400 $ 55,775,435

*The table above shows the most recent personal income tax revenues, which include payroll withholdings, taxes received, and refunds paid out. The reconciliation of these numbers can take up to two days. Final April revenues may not be known until the first week of May due to delivery and processing requirements and the large volume of tax filings received.

**A negative figure indicates the daily refund total outpaced daily receipts and withholdings.

***No transactions are posted on weekends.

Source: California State Controller's Office