Notice2025-14441
Prompt Payment Interest Rate; Contract Disputes Act
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Published
July 31, 2025
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Treasury DepartmentBureau of the Fiscal Service
Abstract
For the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending on December 31, 2025, the prompt payment interest rate is 4\5/8\ per centum per annum.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 145 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36094-36095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14441]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Prompt Payment Interest Rate; Contract Disputes Act
AGENCY: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of prompt payment interest rate; Contract Disputes Act.
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SUMMARY: For the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending on December
31, 2025, the prompt payment interest rate is 4\5/8\ per centum per
annum.
DATES: Applicable July 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Comments or inquiries may be mailed to: Alternative Payments
Division, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, 801 9th Street NW, Washington,
DC 20220. Comments or inquiries may also be emailed to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7c2c0e13110c082c1d05111912083c1a150f1f1d1052080e191d0f090e05521b130a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="96c6e4f9fbe6e2c6f7effbf3f8e2d6f0ffe5f5f7fab8e2e4f3f7e5e3e4efb8f1f9e0">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas M. Burnum, Alternative Payments
Division, (202) 874-6430; or Ashlee Adams, Senior Counsel, Office of
the Chief Counsel, (304) 480-8692.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An agency that has acquired property or
service from a business concern and has failed to pay for the complete
delivery of property or service by the required payment date shall pay
the business concern an interest penalty. 31 U.S.C. 3902(a). The
Contract Disputes Act of 1978, sec. 12, Public Law 95-563, 92 Stat.
2389, and the Prompt Payment Act, 31 U.S.C. 3902(a), provide for the
calculation of interest due on claims at the rate established by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury has the authority to specify the rate
by which the interest shall be computed for interest payments under
section 12 of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 and under the Prompt
Payment Act. Under the Prompt Payment Act, if an interest penalty is
owed to a business concern, the penalty shall be paid regardless of
whether the business concern requested payment of such penalty. 31
U.S.C. 3902(c)(1). Agencies must pay the interest penalty calculated
with the interest rate, which is in effect at the time the agency
accrues the obligation to pay a late payment interest penalty. 31
U.S.C. 3902(a). ``The interest penalty shall be paid for the period
beginning on the day after the required payment date and ending on the
date on which payment is made.'' 31 U.S.C. 3902(b).
Therefore, notice is given that the Secretary of the Treasury has
determined that the rate of interest
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applicable for the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending on
December 31, 2025, is 4\5/8\ per centum per annum.
Timothy E. Gribben,
Commissioner, Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-14441 Filed 7-30-25; 8:45 am]
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