The U.S. Census Bureau has released a new experimental data product featuring quarterly tax collections at the state level for cannabis sales. Data for cannabis sales taxes were reported for the Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue and include data starting with the 3rd quarter of 2021.

The Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides quarterly estimates of state and local government tax revenue at a national level, as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. The information contained in this survey is the most current information available on a nationwide basis for government tax collections.

This quarterly compilation measures cannabis tax revenues of state governments based on a calendar quarter and generally represent taxes collected on sales made during the prior quarter (i.e. data released in September 2023 will cover sales during the quarter ended June 30, 2023).

Non‐response of the tax by any state known to be collecting cannabis excise taxes that is unable to be substituted with administrative data is left blank and marked with an “NA” in the table indicating the data was not available. Because there is no imputation of missing data, data in this experimental data product should not be used to estimate the total cannabis sales tax collected for the U.S.

September 28, 2023

Email address for data user feedback: ewd.qtax@census.gov.