{"id":266,"date":"2024-09-03T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:26:17","slug":"why-does-the-federal-government-fiscal-year-start-october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Why does the federal government fiscal year start October 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace\/spending-more-saving-less\/\">Marketplace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It actually started off on January first very early on in the government\u2019s history.  In 1842, President Tyler actually shifted it to July 1 to June 30.  And then in the 1970s, when Nixon was withholding funds to try and get the budget under control, they shifted it to October 1.  The idea was to give the government more time to actually get their budget in order\u2026which didn\u2019t really work because since that time we\u2019ve only actually set the budget on time four times. <\/p>\n<p>More on setting fiscal years for public and private institutions at Marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace\/spending-more-saving-less\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Marketplace: It actually started off on January first very early on in the government\u2019s history. In 1842, President Tyler actually shifted it to July 1 to June 30. And then in the 1970s, when Nixon was withholding funds to try and get the budget under control, they shifted it to October 1. The idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}