Where the money comes from and where it goes.
State and county government finances from the state’s own reports. Different years and measures are kept apart.
Fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025), audited actuals, all governmental funds (ACFR, governmental funds)
Total revenue $11.4B · total spending $12.4B (exact figures in the tables). Revenue and spending are separate measures; budgeted and audited years are separate records and are never compared as one.
| Taxes | $5,102,892,000.00 |
| Licenses, fines, sales and services | $508,159,000.00 |
| Departmental restricted revenue | $389,321,000.00 |
| Federal grants | $5,142,527,000.00 |
| Investment income (loss) | $135,646,000.00 |
| Other revenues | $115,587,000.00 |
| General government | $1,377,428,000.00 |
| Health and human services | $6,041,606,000.00 |
| Education | $2,256,314,000.00 |
| Public safety | $748,964,000.00 |
| Natural resources | $126,800,000.00 |
| Transportation | $963,749,000.00 |
| Capital outlays | $532,238,000.00 |
| Debt service: principal | $250,918,000.00 |
| Debt service: interest and other charges | $115,346,000.00 |
Fiscal year 2027 (July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027), enacted budget: general revenues and general revenue appropriations (enacted budget)
Total revenue $6.0B · total spending $6.1B (exact figures in the tables). Revenue and spending are separate measures; budgeted and audited years are separate records and are never compared as one.
| Personal income tax | $2,173,008,991.00 |
| Business corporations tax | $383,316,963.00 |
| Public utilities gross earnings tax | $123,173,717.00 |
| Financial institutions tax | $16,777,224.00 |
| Insurance companies tax | $181,346,391.00 |
| Bank deposits tax | $5,700,000.00 |
| Health care provider assessment | $53,699,061.00 |
| Sales and use tax | $1,780,362,121.00 |
| Cigarette tax | $112,969,584.00 |
| Alcohol tax | $20,600,000.00 |
| Estate and transfer taxes | $94,325,325.00 |
| Racing and athletics tax | $700,000.00 |
| Realty transfer tax | $33,300,000.00 |
| Departmental receipts | $561,935,550.00 |
| Other miscellaneous | $19,000,000.00 |
| Lottery transfer | $447,900,000.00 |
| Unclaimed property | $37,600,000.00 |
| General government | $865,001,167.00 |
| Health and human services | $2,407,318,235.00 |
| Education | $2,058,137,967.00 |
| Public safety | $683,489,837.00 |
| Natural resources | $65,158,532.00 |
| Transportation | $0.00 |
County governments
Rhode Island's five counties (Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence and Washington) are only geographic areas, used chiefly for the state courts; they have no county government, no county budget and no county taxes, so there are no county finances to show. The U.S. Census Bureau records the same: it counts no county governments in Rhode Island and keeps no county government finance statistics for the state. Local government in Rhode Island is its 39 cities and towns, which also do work that counties do in other states, along with a few regional school districts and many special districts (fire districts among them). City and town finances are not shown here as county figures; see gaps for where they are published.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Individual State Descriptions: 2022 Census of Governments (Rhode Island, PDF page 266; areas without county government, PDF page 335); U.S. Census Bureau, Individual State Descriptions: 2022 Census of Governments, publication page; Rhode Island Office of the Auditor General, Municipality Financial Trend Report, Fiscal Years 2020-2024 (November 2025); Rhode Island Office of the Auditor General, Local Government Reports page; Rhode Island Office of the Auditor General, Municipalities page.
What is not here yet
- No FY2026 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (year ended June 30, 2026) had been published on Oct. 28, 2026; the Auditor General's Financial Reports page links FY2025 as the newest.
- The Office of Accounts and Control's own website (controller.admin.ri.gov) refused the workspace's requests (HTTP 403) for its pages; the FY2025 ACFR PDF itself downloaded from that site at the address the Auditor General's page links, and the Controller's ACFR page was not read.
- The FY2025 ACFR governmental funds statement prints taxes as one line ($5,102,892,000.00); taxes by type for all governmental funds were not broken out (not yet checked in the notes and statistical section).
- The Auditor General's internal-control report lists 28 financial-reporting findings for fiscal 2025 (10 material weaknesses, 18 significant deficiencies); they are counted, not described, here, and they do not change the unmodified opinions.
- The FY2027 figures are the House Fiscal Advisory Staff's and the Senate Fiscal Office's tabulations of the enacted budget; the appropriations act (Article 1 of 2026-H 7127, Substitute A, as amended) was not saved or checked line by line (not yet checked).
- The Office of Management and Budget's own FY2027 enacted-budget documents were not read: omb.ri.gov refused the workspace's requests (HTTP 403), and its Budget as Enacted report for FY2027 was not found (the FY2026 edition was published in December 2025) (not yet checked).
- The FY2027 revenue lines are the estimate at enactment; the November 2026 Revenue Estimating Conference and any FY2027 supplemental budget are not reflected (not yet checked).
- Rhode Island has no county governments, so no county revenue, spending or property tax exists to show; this is not missing data.
- Finances of the 39 cities and towns were not collected (not yet checked). The state's own sources for them are the Office of the Auditor General's Municipality Financial Trend Report, Fiscal Years 2020-2024 (November 2025; saved in raw/, figures from each municipality's audited statements) and the Department of Revenue's Division of Municipal Finance, whose site (dor.ri.gov/municipal-finance) refused the workspace's requests (HTTP 403) and was not read. The Census Bureau's Census of Governments also covers the cities and towns. Showing them would need a city-and-town table on the public money page, which tools/states.py does not yet have.
- No statewide source: Rhode Island has no county governments and therefore no elected county officials.
- Pay of elected city and town officials was not collected; no single state record of it was found (not yet checked).
Gaps in the public money records as of the date checked.