{"id":900293,"date":"2026-10-30T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900293\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:34:09","slug":"irs-collects-record-breaking-5-6-trillion-in-taxes-in-2026-fiscal-year-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900293\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS collects record-breaking $5.6 trillion in taxes in 2026 fiscal year | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it collected a record-breaking $5.6 trillion in taxes during the 2026 fiscal year, an increase of nearly 5% from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-achieved-historic-performance-in-2026-for-american-taxpayers-efficiently-delivering-new-tax-benefits-to-working-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> the 2026 fiscal year saw a 3% decline in the average tax rate paid by taxpayers for all income levels when compared to the previous year, and it saw a record-breaking amount of money returned to taxpayers in the form of refunds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IRS&#8217;s latest update also said taxpayers increasingly turned to IRS digital services in 2026 and that the number of users creating an online account on the IRS website rose by 34%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>57% more people also used the online portal to pay their taxes, the IRS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it collected a record-breaking $5.6 trillion in taxes during the 2026 fiscal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,47017,26896,451,50295,49567,983,3,9006,26938,61888,61889,61891,61890,3733,45788,452,453,104119,800],"class_list":["post-900293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-economy-of-the-united-states","tag-government-finances","tag-headlines","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-khq","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-public-finance","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-county","tag-spokane-news","tag-spokane-valley","tag-tax","tag-taxation","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states-law","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}