internal revenue

American  

noun

1. the revenue of a government from any domestic source, usually considered to be any source other than customs.

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internal revenue British  

noun

1. government income derived from taxes, etc, within the country

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Etymology

Origin of internal revenue

An Americanism dating back to 1790–1800

Example Sentences

The bleeding continued after Anthropic’s coding tool Claude Code took off among software developers, and OpenAI missed some internal revenue targets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

All three of the chip companies fell Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that ChatGPT-developer OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user targets, sparking worries about AI investment.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

While Snap said it was not providing formal financial guidance, its internal revenue forecast for the second quarter is $1.04 billion, which would be a 6% decline year-over-year.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023

The internal revenue commissioner testified that the late E.W.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021

And the economist, again, may consider what it might mean to take out the license taxes from the city budgets and the hundreds of millions of internal revenue from the budget of the whole country.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various