Delaware’s individual income tax revenue reached $659 million in Q1, 2025

Kathy L. Revel Director Division of Revenue at Delaware Department of Finance
Kathy L. Revel Director Division of Revenue at Delaware Department of Finance
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Delaware collected $659 million in individual income taxes during the first quarter of 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Taxes.

Individual income taxes are based on net personal income and taxes imposed on such income as dividends, interest and income from intangibles.

Overall, Delaware collected $1.8 billion in combined tax revenues in the first quarter of 2025.

In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. government collected nearly $5.1 trillion in tax revenue, with individual income taxes as the largest contributor, followed by payroll and corporate taxes. The IRS also collected $98 billion in enforcement revenue and distributed $553 billion in refunds and other outlays.

In addition to detailed tax revenue data from each state, the Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue includes an estimate of state and local government tax revenue at a national level.

The Census Bureau cautions that it sets the tax classifications among the survey categories, and they may differ from the classifications set by the state governments.

Q1, 2025 Delaware Tax Collections
Type of TaxAmount (millions)
Sales and Gross Receipts Taxes$147
Individual Income Taxes$659
Other Income Taxes$112
Information in this article was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Taxes. The source data can be found here.



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