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| formed = {{start date|2012|10|07}}
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| preceding1 = [[Bureau of the Public Debt]]
| preceding2 = [[Financial Management Service]]
| jurisdiction = [[United States federal government]]
| chief1_name = [[Timothy Gribben]]
| chief1_position = Commissioner of the Fiscal Service
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| headquarters = Liberty Loan Federal Building<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]
| employees = 1,969 [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] <sub>(2020)</sub><ref name=bfs2020>"[https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/266/17.-Fiscal-FY-2021-BIB.pdf Bureau of the Fiscal Service: Program Summary by Budget Activity]". ''U.S. Department of the Treasury''. 2020.</ref>
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| parent_department = [[United States Department of the Treasury]]
| website = {{official URL|https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/}}
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The '''Bureau of the Fiscal Service''' ('''Fiscal Service''') is a bureau of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Department of the Treasury]]. The Fiscal Service replaced the [[Bureau of the Public Debt]] and the [[Financial Management Service]] effective October 7, 2012, by directive of [[Treasury Secretary]] [[Timothy Geithner]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/about.html | title=Bureau of the Fiscal Service - About | publisher=Bureau of the Fiscal Service | year=2018 | accessdate=30 November 2018}}</ref> The merger of the two agencies and their data centers saved $415{{nbsp}}million.<ref>Wenger, Yvonne (September 9, 2012). "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/262783340/ Md. lawmakers protest loss of 450 federal jobs]". ''The Baltimore Sun''. p. A8.</ref>

The Bureau manages the government's accounting, central payment systems, and [[national debt of the United States|public debt]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsprograms/fs_programs.htm | title=Bureau of the Fiscal Service - Our Programs | publisher=Bureau of the Fiscal Service | year=2013 | accessdate=26 November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129213835/http://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsprograms/fs_programs.htm | archive-date=29 November 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> It also operates the [[TreasuryDirect]] website for purchasing [[United States Treasury security|Treasury securities]].<ref>Trompor, Susan (May 28, 2023). "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/965288286/ Nationwide savings bond scheme leads to headaches]". ''Detroit Free Press''. p. B1, B3.</ref>

Among some of its better known duties is to collect any voluntary donations made to the government for reduction of the public debt.<ref>Purcell, Tom (January 28, 2017). "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/264252986/ Your gift can help pay down US debt]". ''News Herald'' (Port Clinton, Ohio). p. A5.</ref> The amount of donations has averaged $2.3{{nbsp}}million per year during the last 26 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm |title=Government - Gift Contributions to Reduce Debt Held by the Public |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20211006103725/https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm |archivedate= October 6, 2021 }}</ref> By comparison, the public debt was over $20{{nbsp}}trillion as of 2017.<ref>Yamachika, Tom (December 10, 2017). "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/820574391/ Voluntary Additional Tax?]" ''West Hawaii Today''. p. C4.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/}}
*[[wikisource:Treasury Order 136-01|Treasury Order 136-01, which created the Fiscal Service]]

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