What is the standard deduction for 2026?
For tax year 2026 the basic standard deduction is $16,100 for a single filer, $32,200 for a married couple filing jointly, $16,100 for married filing separately and $24,150 for head of household. A qualifying surviving spouse takes the same amount as a joint return.
United States · federal · tax year 2026 · every figure from an open dataset with its source
The figures
| Filing status | Amount |
|---|---|
| Single | $16,100 |
| Married filing jointly | $32,200 |
| Married filing separately | $16,100 |
| Head of household | $24,150 |
| Qualifying surviving spouse | $32,200 |
The standard deduction comes off your income before the rate schedules touch it. What is left is taxable income, and that — not your salary, not your revenue — is the number the brackets apply to. You take this or you itemise your deductions; there is no way to do both.
These are the basic amounts. The extra standard deduction for being sixty-five or older, or blind, is set separately and is not included here; neither is the different, smaller deduction that applies to someone who can be claimed as another person’s dependant. The dataset behind this page carries neither, so this page does not pretend to.
Where these figures come from
Each row below is one line of our open dataset: the primary document the figure was read out of, the date it was read, and a link to the document itself. Nothing here was copied from a summary of a summary.
| constant | basis | source document | verified on |
|---|---|---|---|
standard_deduction_2026 |
indexed | Rev. Proc. 2025-32 (2026 inflation adjustments; announced in IR-2025-103), section 4.01 / 4.14 / 4.26 sec. 4.14(1) | ✓ verified |
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