April 2016 California Personal Income Tax Daily Revenue Tracker

Last fiscal year, personal income taxes accounted for 66.7 percent of all State General Fund revenues. Of those receipts, 18.1 percent arrived during the month of April.

This year, as of the end of March, preliminary reports of General Fund receipts for the 2015-16 fiscal year totaled $51.9 billion, which is 0.1 percent higher than anticipated in the budget proposal released by Gov. Jerry Brown in January.

The governor's budget estimates a total of $14.6 billion in personal income tax will be collected in April. The chart below compares the running total to the $14.6 billion estimate of April personal income tax receipts. The total consists of personal income tax receipts minus refunds.

April 2016 chart


April 2016 Preliminary Report of California Personal Income Tax Revenues (In Thousands of Dollars)*

Date Daily Personal Income Taxes
(Receipts And Withholding Minus Refunds)
Fiscal 2015-16 Year-To-Date
Personal Income Tax Revenues
Fiscal 2014-15 Year-To-Date
Personal Income Tax Revenues
March Balance   $51,826,467 $48,062,000
April 1 13,836 51,840,303 48,193,600
April 2 *** *** 48,633,300
April 3 *** *** 48,780,900
April 4 589,035 52,429,338 48,780,900
April 5 235,467 52,664,805 48,780,900
April 6 523,557 53,188,362 49,265,300
April 7 72,187 53,260,549 49,384,000
April 8 286,716 53,547,265 49,891,000
April 9 *** *** 50,034,700
April 10 *** *** 50,542,700
April 11 122,888 53,670,153 50,542,700
April 12 376,405 54,046,558 50,542,700
April 13 518,382 54,564,940 50,871,300
April 14 238,840 54,803,780 51,524,300
April 15 861,764 55,665,544 53,065,700
April 16 *** *** 55,819,900
April 17 *** *** 58,011,000
April 18 1,500,873 57,166,417 58,011,000
April 19 2,081,859 59,248,276 58,011,000
April 20 2,342,229 61,590,505 59,084,900
April 21 541,781 62,132,286 59,535,800
April 22 723,484 62,855,770 59,832,500
April 23 *** *** 60,192,100
April 24 *** *** 60,880,400
April 25 407,076 63,262,846 60,880,400
April 26 521,902 63,784,748 60,880,400
April 27 712,366 64,497,114 61,349,100
April 28 397,695 64,894,809 61,425,000
April 29 332,624 65,227,433 61,699,300
April 30 *** *** 61,853,900
Monthly Total $13,400,966 $65,227,433 $ 61,853,900

*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