General Services Administration in Arkansas

The thinnest Treasury file in this slice

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Arkansas as place-of-performance: 36 records summing to $1,931,122,930.53. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside AR is out. An award in Arkansas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Arkansas (AR) excludes Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A Memphis-coded award is TN even if a payee later banks in Little Rock. IRS, Fiscal Service, and other Treasury bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 020.

Thirty-six awards against $1,931,122,930.53 is the thinnest Treasury file in this slice. A handful of fiscal vehicles can dominate the dollar total. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 36 as 36 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Arkansas is the both-keys table. Arkansas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an AR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Little Rock is not published as a metro cut. Do not treat 36 as a list of unique Arkansas taxpayers. Correlation is not causation: Arkansas did not “cause” $1,931,122,930.53 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × AR only.

Refunds are a different series

$1,931,122,930.53 does not measure individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 020 and an AR place-of-performance tag. IRS, Fiscal Service, and other Treasury bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 020.

Do not treat 36 awards as a census of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Arkansas federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $1,931,122,930.53 and 36, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Missouri, Tennessee, and Louisiana Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of the Treasury obligated in Arkansas?

USAspending.gov records $1,931,122,930.53 across 36 awards with awarding agency 020 and an Arkansas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Department of the Treasury in Arkansas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,931,122,930.53.

Is $1,931,122,930.53 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $1,931,122,930.53 and 36 awards for agency 020 inside AR coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Treasury file have 36 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × AR. Combined with $1,931,122,930.53, the average is about $53.64 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 36 is not unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Treasury–Arkansas table?

Department of the Treasury in Arkansas is the overlay. Arkansas federal spending and Department of the Treasury are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,931,122,930.53. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.