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Payer State Transparency Act of 2025
To assess the State by State impact of Federal taxation and spending.
Summary
This bill requires the Secretary of Commerce to calculate each state's annual federal tax burden, attributing individual taxes to the state where the taxpayer resides and business taxes to states proportionally based on economic activity in each state. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with other agencies, must calculate the total federal outlays received by each state annually, attributing federal contract awards proportionally based on performance in each state. The bill requires a joint report to Congress within 180 days of each calendar year's beginning, published on a publicly accessible website, showing each state's federal tax burden and federal outlays received.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (D-IL)
3 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Bill Foster’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- FERMILAB $22,943
- NULL $18,250
- BOSTON UNIVERSITY $17,800
- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO $17,560
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $17,476
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Bill Foster → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Dec 16, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
- Dec 16, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 16, 2025
Mr. Foster (for himself, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Gottheimer, and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To assess the State by State impact of Federal taxation and spending.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Payer State Transparency Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. CALCULATION OF FEDERAL TAX BURDENS AND OUTLAYS.
(a) State by State Calculation of Federal Tax Burdens.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, shall calculate the Federal tax burden of each State for each calendar year.
(2) Calculation of federal tax burden.—For purposes of calculating the Federal tax burden of each State under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—
(A) treat Federal taxes paid by an individual as a burden on the State in which such individual resides; and
(B) treat Federal taxes paid by a legal business entity as a burden on each State in which economic activity of such entity is performed in the same proportion that the economic activity of such entity in such State bears to the economic activity of such entity in all the States.
(b) State by State Calculation of Federal Outlays.—
(1) In general.—The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Council of Economic Advisers and the Secretary of the Treasury, shall calculate the total amount of Federal outlays received by each State in each fiscal year.
(2) Treatment of contract awards.—For purposes of calculating the amount of Federal outlays received by a State under paragraph (1), a Federal contract award shall be treated as a Federal outlay received by each State in which performance under the award takes place in the same proportion that such performance in such State bears to such performance in all the States.
(c) State Defined.—In this section the term “State” means each of the several States.
SEC. 3. JOINT REPORT.
Not later than the date that is 180 days after the beginning of each calendar year, the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall—
(1) jointly submit to Congress a report containing the results of the calculations described in section 2 with respect to such calendar year; and
(2) publish the report on a publicly accessible website of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. <all>
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