April 2017 California Personal Income Tax Daily Revenue Tracker

Last fiscal year, personal income taxes accounted for 66.9 percent of all state General Fund revenues. Of those receipts, 16.9 percent arrived during the month of April.

This year, as of the end of March, preliminary reports of General Fund receipts for the 2016-17 fiscal year totaled $54.9 billion, which is 1.1 percent higher than anticipated in the budget proposal released by Gov. Jerry Brown in January.

The governor's budget estimates a total of $13.5 billion in personal income tax will be collected in April. The chart below compares the running total to the $13.5 billion estimate of April personal income tax receipts. The total consists of personal income tax receipts minus refunds.

April 2017 chart


April 2017 Preliminary Report of California Personal Income Tax Revenues (In Thousands of Dollars)*

Date Daily Personal Income Taxes
(Receipts And Withholding Minus Refunds)
Fiscal 2016-17 Year-To-Date
Personal Income Tax Revenues
Fiscal 2015-16
Year-To-Date Personal Income Tax Revenues
March Balance   $54,902,329 $51,826,467
April 1 *** *** 51,840,303
April 2 *** *** 51,840,303
April 3 180,399 55,082,728 51,840,303
April 4 461,624 55,544,352 52,429,338
April 5 458,174 56,002,526 52,664,805
April 6 (44,626) 55,957,900 53,188,362
April 7 536,841 56,494,741 53,260,549
April 8 *** *** 53,547,265
April 9 *** *** 53,547,265
April 10 201,798 56,696,539 53,547,265
April 11 236,251 56,932,790 53,670,153
April 12 457,579 57,390,369 54,046,558
April 13 231,267 57,621,636 54,564,940
April 14 515,106 58,136,742 54,803,780
April 15 *** *** 55,665,544
April 16 *** *** 55,665,544
April 17 978,810 59,115,552 55,665,544
April 18 977,859 60,093,411 57,166,417
April 19 2,812,468 62,905,879 59,248,276
April 20 1,658,637 64,564,516 61,590,505
April 21 723,893 65,288,409 62,132,286
April 22 *** *** 62,855,770
April 23 *** *** 62,855,770
April 24 1,082,680 66,371,089 62,855,770
April 25 410,852 66,781,941 63,262,846
April 26 421,953 67,203,894 63,784,748
April 27 345,789 67,549,683 64,497,114
April 28 113,020 67,662,703 64,894,809
April 29 *** *** 65,227,433
April 30 *** *** 65,227,433
Monthly Total $12,760,374 $67,662,703 $ 65,227,433

*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