revenue

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.
• noun Yield from property or investment; income.
• noun All the income produced by a particular source.
• noun A governmental department set up to collect public funds.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any kind of property, real or personal; income.
• noun The annual income of a state, derived from the taxation, customs, excise, or other sources, and appropriated to the payment of the national expenses.
• noun Return; reward.
• noun Synonyms Profit, etc. See income.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
• noun Hence, return; reward.
• noun The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
• noun an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The income returned by an investment
• noun The total income received from a given source
• noun All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means
• noun accounting The total sales; turnover.
• noun accounting The net revenue, net sales.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
• noun government income due to taxation