- New
statusvalue:Requested. A request for the agreement has been filed with the IRS and it has not answered yet. It becomesPendingorActiveonce the IRS acts, and existing values are unchanged. See Installment agreements. - Read
startDateandcoveredPeriodsdifferently on aRequestedagreement.startDateis the date the request was filed rather than a date the IRS posted, andcoveredPeriodsare the periods the request asks the agreement to cover rather than periods the IRS has established. On every other status both keep their existing meaning. - No breaking change. Agreements you already receive are unaffected. If your integration switches on
status, addRequestedto it — a client that treats unknown values as an error will otherwise reject a taxpayer who has one.
August 21, 2026
Installment agreements can now report a filed request the IRS has not answered
Installment agreements gained a state that comes before the IRS has acted on them.

