Updated September 8, 2026. Quick answer: the 2027 standard deduction has not been announced yet; the IRS sets it by Revenue Procedure, typically in the final weeks before the tax year it covers. What is confirmed is the 2026 amount: $32,200 married filing jointly, $24,150 head of household, and $16,100 single or married filing separately, per IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32.
The confirmed 2026 amounts
| Filing status | 2026 standard deduction |
|---|---|
| Married filing jointly / surviving spouse | $32,200 |
| Head of household | $24,150 |
| Single | $16,100 |
| Married filing separately | $16,100 |
A dependent who can be claimed on someone else’s return has a separate cap: the greater of $1,350 or $450 plus the dependent’s own earned income (26 U.S.C. § 63(c)(5)).
The 65-or-older and blind add-on
An additional amount stacks on top of the base figure above for each qualifying condition (26 U.S.C. § 63(f)): $1,650 per qualifying person if married, or $2,050 if unmarried and not a surviving spouse. The add-on applies once per condition, so a single filer who is both 65-or-older and blind adds it twice.
What is not public yet: 2027
The IRS publishes each year’s inflation-adjusted figures via Revenue Procedure, historically in the final weeks leading into the tax year (13 of the last 15 annual procedures were published in November per this site’s own /2027-tax-brackets/ page’s sourced chart). As of this session (September 8, 2026), no such procedure for 2027 has been published.
No dated, named-forecaster projection (the two organizations that routinely publish these, Bloomberg Tax and Wolters Kluwer/CCH, were checked by name) was located this session. Only unattributed calculator/aggregator sites (not a named forecasting organization, and none archiving a dated methodology) carry a 2027 figure; per this item’s own instruction and the site’s primary-source-or-omit law, those do not qualify and are not cited.
How the 2026-to-2027 increase gets calculated
The standard deduction is indexed annually via chained CPI (C-CPI-U) under 26 U.S.C. § 1(f), the same index used for the bracket thresholds; see /2027-tax-brackets/ for the bracket-specific mechanism and historical publication-timing chart (not repeated here).
The rates are already settled. Only the thresholds are still moving.
That is enough to plan against. A Roth conversion, a deferred bonus or a gain taken in 2027 can be sized today against the 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37% rates the statute already fixes, without waiting for the Revenue Procedure. If you want someone to price that decision against your own income rather than a projection, this is the point to ask.
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Sources
IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32, Section 3.14 (Standard Deduction): read the Revenue Procedure, corroborated by the IRS newsroom announcement. No 2027 figures have been published by the IRS as of this page's last update.
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General information, not tax or legal advice. This page will be updated with the official 2027 figure the day the IRS announces it.