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New York's fiscal year runs April 1 – March 31. This page summarizes the SFY 2027 enacted budget (Enacted Budget Financial Plan), revenues, reserves, and debt from official state documents, with every figure labeled by basis and every gap disclosed.

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Overview

New York's fiscal year runs April 1 – March 31. The current fiscal year is SFY 2027, April 1, 2026 – March 31, 2027, funded by the Enacted Budget Financial Plan of the Division of the Budget. The budget passed the Legislature on May 27, 2026 — 57 days late — and was enacted May 28, 2026.

$277,020 millionAll Funds, SFY 2027 enacted
$161,127 millionState Operating Funds, SFY 2027 enacted
$128,792 millionGeneral Fund including transfers, SFY 2027 enacted
20,002,427Population, Census Vintage 2025 estimate, July 1, 2025 — not a Census count
AlbanyCapital
11th stateAdmitted to the Union July 26, 1788
62Counties
$7,756 millionCombined statutory rainy-day funds, end of FY 2025
“Excelsior”State motto — “Ever upward”

Enacted, not proposed: every SFY 2027 figure on this page is from the Enacted Budget Financial Plan and the enacted Annual Information Statement (AIS). The National Association of State Budget Officers' executive-proposal figures for New York (about $260 billion All Funds, $157.4 billion State Operating Funds, $126.8 billion General Fund, closing General Fund balance $47.1 billion) are proposal basis and are never used as enacted figures here.

Sources: New York Division of the Budget, Enacted Budget Financial Plan, SFY 2027; Office of the State Comptroller, Annual Information Statement; U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts: New York.

Enacted budget by fund source — SFY 2027 ($ millions)

MeasureSFY 2025 actualSFY 2026 actualSFY 2027 enacted
All Funds$241,471$258,951$277,020
State Operating Funds$133,654$148,810$161,127
General Fund including transfers$108,676$124,503$128,792
Capital Projects Funds——$21,460
Federal Operating Aid——$94,433

All Governmental Funds rise $18.1 billion (7.0%) over SFY 2026, and State Operating Funds rise $12.3 billion (8.3%). About 60% of the increase is Medicaid and School Aid. Capital Projects Funds and Federal Operating Aid are shown for SFY 2027 only — the extracted enacted table did not carry their SFY 2025–2026 actuals, so no prior-year values are shown for those two rows rather than guessed ones.

Source: Division of the Budget, Enacted Budget Financial Plan, SFY 2027; AIS, SFY 2027.

Revenues by source — General Fund cash plan, SFY 2027 enacted ($ millions)

Cash-plan presentation: the table below is the AIS General Fund cash financial plan. Its receipts total ($127,172 million) is not the same presentation as the Financial Plan's "$128,792 million General Fund including transfers" headline — that headline equals the disbursements total below. Receipts fall $1,620 million short of disbursements; the gap is covered from fund balance.

General Fund receipts — sums exactly to $127,172 million

Receipt ($ millions)SFY 2027 enacted
Personal income tax$33,274
Consumption and use taxes$10,935
Business taxes$20,384
Other taxes$1,505
Miscellaneous receipts$4,186
Federal receipts$0
Transfer: PIT in excess of revenue bond debt service$32,028
Transfer: Pass-Through Entity Tax in excess of revenue bond debt service$9,995
Transfer: Employer Compensation Expense Program in excess$10
Transfer: Sales tax in excess of revenue bond debt service$10,098
Transfer: Real estate taxes in excess of CW/CA debt service$1,206
Transfer: All other$3,551
Total General Fund receipts$127,172

New York's distinctive transfer structure is the story of this table: $56,888 million of the $127,172 million arrives as transfers from other funds — chiefly personal income tax revenue in excess of revenue bond debt service ($32,028 million) — because the state's personal income tax is collected into a revenue bond fund first and only the excess flows to the General Fund.

Source: Office of the State Comptroller, Annual Information Statement, Financial Plan Tables — General Fund cash plan, SFY 2027 enacted.

Expenditures

General Fund disbursements — sums exactly to $128,792 million

Disbursement ($ millions)SFY 2027 enacted
Assistance and Grants$90,803
Personal Service$12,763
Non-Personal Service$4,187
General State Charges$11,424
Transfer: Debt Service$294
Transfer: Capital Projects$4,855
Transfer: SUNY Operations$1,831
Transfer: Other Purposes$2,635
Total General Fund disbursements$128,792

Major program spending — enacted

School Aid, SFY 2027 enacted (up $1.7 billion)$39 billion
Foundation Aid within School Aid (up $1 billion)$27.4 billion

Out-year budget gaps in the enacted plan: SFY 2028 $6.4 billion; SFY 2029 $10.5 billion; SFY 2030 $14.7 billion. Those gaps are projections in the enacted plan, not enacted spending.

Sources: Division of the Budget, Enacted Budget Financial Plan, SFY 2027; AIS, SFY 2027.

What this section deliberately omits

Fund balance & reserves — two different measures, kept separate

Statutory rainy-day funds (FY 2025 AIS, $ millions)

MeasureFY 2025 openingChangeFY 2025 closing
Combined statutory rainy-day funds$6,256+$1,500$7,756

The Rainy Day Reserve Account alone stood at $7.1 billion at March 31, 2025 (FY 2025 ACFR). The AIS combined figure ($7,756 million) covers the combined statutory rainy-day funds and matches the Comptroller's approximately $7.8 billion total after the planned $1.5 billion deposit.

Informal reserve — not a statutory fund

Economic Uncertainties reserve (informal, executive-controlled)$13,812 million (flat in FY 2025)

The Comptroller warns that the Economic Uncertainties balance is subject to administrative use and is not governed by the statutory use and repayment requirements that bind the rainy-day funds. Never add it to the statutory total as if it were the same kind of reserve — the two measures are $7,756 million (statutory) and $13,812 million (informal), and they are not combined on this page.

Sources: Office of the State Comptroller, FY 2025 ACFR; FY 2025 AIS.

What this section deliberately omits

State debt — Financial Condition Report, SFY 2024-25 end

Three measures, never mixed. New York's debt is overwhelmingly authority ("backdoor") borrowing, not voter-approved general obligation bonds. The broadest GAAP measure includes more than bonded debt.

Voter-approved general obligation bonds$2.3 billion
State-supported debt (about 96% authority borrowing)$55.9 billion
State debt, GAAP basis$62.2 billion
General obligation ratingsAA+ / AA+ / Aa1
National debt-burden rank (Moody's, 2023)2nd, behind only California

Source: Office of the State Comptroller, 2025 Financial Condition Report.

State facts & symbols

CapitalAlbany
Admitted to the UnionJuly 26, 1788 — 11th state
Counties62
Population estimate, July 1, 2025 (Census Vintage 2025)20,002,427 — an estimate, never a Census count
FIPS code36
State birdEastern bluebird
State flowerRose
State treeSugar maple
State motto“Excelsior” — “Ever upward”
State nicknameEmpire State
Flag colorsBlue field with gold — color names only; no official hex values are claimed on this page

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts: New York; New York State Assembly, state symbols.

Sources & checks

Source documents

Sum-check log (recomputed at build time)

What this page deliberately omits

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