Quarterly Summary of State & Local Taxes

Data Collection

Confidentiality: : Data collected for the Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Revenue are public record and are not confidential, as authorized by Title 13, United States Code, Section 9.

Dates of Collection: The following are important dates in the data collection process:

First week following the reference period	Initial mail-out
Six weeks after initial mail-out	Non-response follow-up
10 weeks after initial mail-out	Completion of data compilation and editing

Methods: Local government tax data (F-71 for local government property taxes and F-73 for local government non-property taxes) are collected by mail. Data are returned by mail or through web collection. The fifty state governments provide the Census Bureau with administrative records from their central accounting systems.