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The following chart illustrates the sources of revenues for governmental activities for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.

Taxes accounted for 62% of the County's total revenues. In 2025 tax revenue increased to $56,295,425. The millage rate rose to 5.1393 mills, and that increase combined with strong residential growth and broader real estate development throughout the County contributed to the upward trend in real estate taxes. In addition to real estate and per capita taxes, the County levies a 5% hotel lodging tax. By statute, proceeds from this tax are used to support the promotion, advertising, and marketing of tourism and special events through Destination Gettysburg, the designated visitor's bureau. For the year ending 2025, the hotel tax receipts increased slightly by 3% despite some travel-related challenges in 2025.

Operating Grants and Contributions, the County's second-largest source of revenue increased $1.7 million in 2025. Approximately $930,000 in state funding was delayed or not received in 2025 because of the budget impasse. Even so, federal funding helped drive the overall increase. The Community Development Block Grant projects were reimbursed in the amount of $1.3 million, and the Conservation District received grant funding through the Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program.

Charges for services represented 9% of total revenues in 2025. This category includes fees, fines, licenses, permits, and commissions on certain fees collected by County row offices on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2025, these revenues decreased by 15%, due in part to the County receiving approximately $735,000 less in opioid settlement funds. Revenue also declined because of lower out-of-county and work release fees at the Correctional Complex, as well as reduced collections of the electronic monitoring fee and the offender supervision fee in Probation Services. In June 2025, Act 44 allowed individuals to be released from supervision early if they met specific criteria. As a result, some supervision terms ended early, and overpayments of offender supervision fees were refunded to defendants.