| Change | Components affected | Initial year of revision |
| Recognize business and government expenditures for software as fixed investment | Private fixed investment in equipment and software, government consumption expenditures and gross investment, proprietors' income, consumption of fixed capital, corporate profits, subsidies less current surplus of government enterprises, personal saving, and government current surplus or deficit | 1959 |
| Reclassify government employee retirement plans | PCE, government consumption expenditures and gross investment, employer contributions for social insurance, personal contributions for social insurance, other labor income, personal saving, personal income, personal outlays, personal dividend income, dividends received by government, personal interest income, net interest paid by government, transfer payments to persons from government, transfer payments to the rest of the world from government (net), transfer payments to the rest of the world from persons (net), and government current surplus or deficit | 1929 |
| Modify the treatment of private noninsured pension plans | Corporate profits, dividends, rental income of persons, personal dividend income, net interest, and personal interest income | 1946 |
| Reclassify certain transactions as capital transfers | Corporate profits, subsidies less current surplus of government enterprises, personal tax and nontax payments, personal saving, transfer payments to the rest of the world from persons (net), transfer payments to the rest of the world from government (net), government current surplus or deficit, and net foreign investment | 1929 |
| Redefine dividend payments by regulated investment companies to exclude distributions that reflect capital gains income | Dividends, undistributed profits, personal dividend income, and personal saving | 1946/1/ |
| Redefine the value of imputed services of regulated investment companies | PCE, government consumption expenditures and gross investment, personal interest income, net interest, and net interest paid by government | 1959 |
| Reclassify several government taxes and transfer programs | PCE, S&L government consumption expenditures and gross investment, employer contributions for social insurance, personal contributions for social insurance, subsidies less current surplus of government enterprises, transfer payments to persons, personal tax and nontax payments, personal saving, government current surplus or deficit, and the statistical discrepancy | 1938 (Federal) 1973 (S&L) |
| Reclassify as financial transactions the implicit subsidies associated with Federal direct loan housing programs | Net interest, subsidies less current surplus of government enterprises, and net interest paid by government | 1968 |
| Reclassify directors' fees | Proprietors' income, other labor income, the statistical discrepancy, and personal saving | 1929 |
1. This change will affect the estimates through 1981 (see the section in the text).
PCE Personal consumption expenditures
S&L State and local