Georgia's money: where it comes from and where it goes

• Motor fuel taxes$1.76 billion
• Insurance premium taxes$562 million
• Other selective sales taxes$535 million
• Motor vehicle licenses$409 million
• Tobacco taxes$226 million
• Alcoholic beverage taxes$224 million
• Other taxes not classified elsewhere$203 million
• Occupation and business licenses$85.3 million
• Corporation licenses$57.2 million
• Driver's licenses$34.8 million
• Hunting and fishing licenses$29.0 million
• Alcoholic beverage licenses$5.0 million
• Other licenses$452 thousand

Amounts are by Census tax category.

• College tuition$1.85 billion
• University housing and dining$803 million
• Ports and waterways$699 million
• Other service charges$617 million
• Hospital bills$374 million
• Parks and recreation$178 million
• Tolls on roads and bridges$76.6 million
• Other education charges$72.8 million
• Parks, land and natural resources$68.1 million
• Road charges$28.0 million
• Housing$4.3 million
• Transit fares$2.0 million
• Airport$10 thousand

Amounts are by Census type of charge.

• Other public welfare$19.0 billion
• Unemployment and social insurance offices$39.6 million
• Veterans' services$24.3 million
• Welfare institutions$23.4 million

• Sent to school districts$14.3 billion
• Sent to local governments: finance, tax collection and budgeting$850 million
• Sent to local governments: public health$708 million
• Sent to local governments: other public welfare$603 million
• Sent to local governments: roads and highways$523 million
• Sent to local governments: hospitals$271 million
• Sent to local governments: other and not broken out$243 million
• Sent to local governments: airports$71.4 million
• Sent to local governments: housing and community development$56.3 million
• Sent to local governments: police$52.0 million
• Sent to local governments: libraries$47.4 million
• Sent to local governments: courts and legal services$40.4 million
• Sent to local governments: probation, parole and other corrections$36.8 million
• Sent to local governments: natural resources, farming and conservation$26.2 million
• Sent to local governments: inspections and regulation$3.5 million
• Sent to local governments: other education$2.5 million
• Sent to local governments: other government administration$599 thousand
• Sent to local governments: central staff services (personnel, purchasing, technology)$449 thousand
• Sent to local governments: prisons and jails$114 thousand

• Colleges and universities$7.45 billion
• Other education$3.70 billion
• Scholarships and other education subsidies$1.73 billion
• College housing, dining and bookstores$966 million

• Roads and highways$4.54 billion
• Ports and harbors$862 million
• Public transit$53.0 million
• Toll roads and bridges$50.4 million
• Airports$6.2 million

• Other and not broken out$3.00 billion
• Central staff services (personnel, purchasing, technology)$1.03 billion
• Finance, tax collection and budgeting$761 million
• Government buildings$88.7 million
• Other government administration$47.7 million

• Prisons and jails$1.49 billion
• Inspections and regulation$954 million
• Police$672 million
• Probation, parole and other corrections$575 million
• Courts and legal services$575 million

• Hospitals$1.53 billion
• Public health$1.43 billion

• Natural resources, farming and conservation$766 million

• Parks and recreation$290 million
• Libraries$16.8 million

• Garbage and solid waste$17.1 million
• Sewer systems$9.3 million