General Services Administration in Massachusetts

A thinner Treasury file on Massachusetts

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Massachusetts as place-of-performance: 645 records summing to $3,828,356,882.13. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside MA is out. An award in Massachusetts from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and Vermont. A Providence-coded award is Rhode Island.

Six hundred forty-five awards against $3,828,356,882.13 is a mid-thin, high-mean Treasury file. Fiscal vehicles can mint fewer rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 645 as 645 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an MA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Boston is not published as a metro cut. Assigning the cell to a named campus is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not “cause” $3,828,356,882.13 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × MA only.

Refunds are a different series

$3,828,356,882.13 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 MA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 645 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 Massachusetts federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $3,828,356,882.13 and 645, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New York, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $3,828,356,882.13 across 645 awards with awarding agency 020 and a Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,828,356,882.13.

Is $3,828,356,882.13 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $3,828,356,882.13 and 645 awards for agency 020 inside MA 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 645 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × MA. Combined with $3,828,356,882.13, the average is about $5.94 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 645 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 table?

Department of the Treasury in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $3,828,356,882.13. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.