Department of the Treasury federal obligations in Alabama

A thin Treasury file on an Alabama tag

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 230 records summing to $2,994,775,702.96. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) is the place-of-performance key. Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Florida Treasury rows are other cells.

Two hundred thirty awards against a multi-billion dollar stock is a thin, high-mean Treasury file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 230 as 230 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Birmingham is not published as a metro cut. Assigning the cell to a named campus is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $2,994,775,702.96 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × AL only.

Refunds are a different series

$2,994,775,702.96 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 AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 230 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 Alabama federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $2,994,775,702.96 and 230, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alabama is not an IRS-campus map

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) is the place-of-performance key. Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Florida Treasury rows are other cells. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Birmingham is not published as a metro cut. Assigning the cell to a named campus is a new extract. This packet does not split $2,994,775,702.96 by city, county, or named facility. 230 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Large vehicles, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,994,775,702.96 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 230-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,994,775,702.96.

How to cite Treasury in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of the Treasury (agency 020) obligated $2,994,775,702.96 on 230 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses.

Prefer Department of the Treasury in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. Department of the Treasury is the 020 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,994,775,702.96.

A usable footnote names Department of the Treasury, Alabama, $2,994,775,702.96, and 230. The compact headline $2.99 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $13.02 million is $2,994,775,702.96 divided by 230. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $2,994,775,702.96 across 230 awards with awarding agency 020 and an Alabama 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 Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,994,775,702.96.

Is $2,994,775,702.96 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $2,994,775,702.96 and 230 awards for agency 020 inside AL 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 230 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × AL. Combined with $2,994,775,702.96, the average is about $13.02 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 230 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 Alabama is the overlay. Alabama 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 $2,994,775,702.96. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.