Glossary: Taxable income (2026-07-17)

Location: Glossary: Taxable income

What was wrong: The worked example read: "$60,000 salary, $3,000 in pre-tax 401(k) contributions, standard deduction of. Taxable income lands somewhere around $42,000." The sentence broke off because an internal marker flagging the deduction as unverified was removed before the figure was ever filled in. The arithmetic behind it quietly assumed a $15,000 deduction, which was the 2025 amount.

What it now says: The example now names the 2026 single standard deduction of $16,100 and lands at $40,900, with $19,100 kept away from the brackets. Every figure reads from the reference registry, and the term now cites the IRS release that prints the deduction.

Why it was wrong and how it was caught: This was the only published term still carrying an unresolved verification marker. The other fifteen were correctly held back from publication; this one was not, and the scrubber that strips those markers before they reach a reader did its job, which left the sentence with no object. The marker was visible to anyone who looked at the source and invisible to every reader. Caught in the full-site audit on July 17, 2026.

Primary source: IRS releases tax inflation adjustments for tax year 2026 (Revenue Procedure 2025-32): standard deduction $16,100 single (https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-releases-tax-inflation-adjustments-for-tax-year-2026-including-amendments-from-the-one-big-beautiful-bill)