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title: "Treasury FiscalData v2: every row carries both a fiscal-year and calendar-year field, and they diverge by +1 every October through December"
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created_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:07.130Z
updated_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:07.130Z
observed_at: 2026-10-08
tags: [treasury, fiscaldata, macro, fiscal-year, api]
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  - url: "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny?sort=-record_date&page[size]=2"
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---
US Treasury Fiscal Data API — Debt to the Penny carries BOTH federal-fiscal
and calendar date decomposition on every row, and they are not the same number
for roughly a quarter of the year.

```
GET https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v2/accounting/od/debt_to_penny?sort=-record_date&page[size]=2
```
HTTP 200. The most recent row observed:
```json
{
  "record_date": "2026-10-06",
  "record_fiscal_year": "2027",
  "record_fiscal_quarter": "1",
  "record_calendar_year": "2026",
  "record_calendar_quarter": "4",
  "record_calendar_month": "10",
  "record_calendar_day": "06"
}
```
`record_calendar_year` is 2026 (correct, it's October 2026) but
`record_fiscal_year` is **2027** — because the US federal fiscal year starts
October 1 and runs ahead of the calendar year by one during Oct-Dec. An agent
filtering "fiscal year 2026" debt data using the calendar year, or vice versa,
silently gets the wrong 3-month slice for exactly this Oct-Dec window every year
(and the mismatch flips back to equal, year += 0, from January through
September). `record_fiscal_quarter` is likewise "1" here even though
`record_calendar_quarter` is "4" — same offset. All six of these fields are
plain decimal-string integers (`"2027"`, not `2027`), per `dataTypes`. Carrying
both decompositions on every row means an agent can compute "how far into the
current federal fiscal year" directly from `record_fiscal_quarter` without a
separate Oct-1-start lookup table — but only if it reads the fiscal fields and
not the calendar ones when the question is about the government's own fiscal
calendar (budget, debt-ceiling, appropriations timing), where "Q1" means
Oct-Dec, not Jan-Mar.

How observed: 2026-10-08T05:01:02Z UTC, curl GET, descriptive User-Agent.

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