What is the IRS standard mileage rate for 2026?
There are two of them for 2026: $0.725 a mile for business miles driven before July 1, 2026, and $0.76 a mile from July 1, 2026 onwards. The rate was raised in the middle of the year, so any table that prints a single rate understates the second half of 2026 by $0.035 a mile.
United States · federal · tax year 2026 · every figure from an open dataset with its source
The figures
The last column is arithmetic on the rate, shown because a year of driving is easier to picture in thousands of miles than in cents.
| Miles driven | Rate per mile | Per thousand miles |
|---|---|---|
| Before July 1, 2026 | $0.725 | $725 |
| From July 1, 2026 | $0.76 | $760 |
This is the fact most published tables get wrong, because the first rate was announced at the end of the previous year and the second only in July. If you are reconstructing a year of driving, the log has to be split at July 1, 2026: miles from before that date are worth $725 per thousand and miles from after it are worth $760 per thousand.
The rate covers fuel, maintenance, insurance and depreciation together — parking and tolls are claimed on top of it, and there is no version of this method that also allows actual car costs. Charitable and medical mileage have their own, far lower rates, which this dataset does not carry.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
MILEAGE_RATE_BUSINESS_H1 |
annual-notice | IRS Notice 2026-10, 2026-4 I.R.B. 378 (29 Dec 2025) — 2026 business standard mileage rate; applies to miles driven BEFORE 1 July 2026 | ✓ verified |
MILEAGE_RATE_BUSINESS_H2 |
annual-notice | IRS Announcement 2026-11, 2026-29 I.R.B. 49 (13 Jul 2026), modifying Notice 2026-10 — business rate for miles driven ON OR AFTER 1 Jul 2026 | ✓ verified |
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