diff --git a/src/state-manager/TransactionQueue.ts b/src/state-manager/TransactionQueue.ts
index 5b01bcadb..c4c7021c0 100644
--- a/src/state-manager/TransactionQueue.ts
+++ b/src/state-manager/TransactionQueue.ts
@@ -1448,6 +1448,12 @@ class TransactionQueue {
    * @param queueEntry
    */
   async commitConsensedTransaction(queueEntry: QueueEntry): Promise<CommitConsensedTransactionResult> {
+    // Debug flag to intentionally skip committing account data
+    if (this.stateManager.debugFailToCommit) {
+      /* prettier-ignore */ if (logFlags.debug) this.mainLogger.debug(`debugFailToCommit active. Skipping commit for tx: ${queueEntry.logID}`)
+      queueEntry.accountDataSet = true
+      return { success: true }
+    }
     let ourLockID = -1
     let accountDataList: string | unknown[]
     let uniqueKeys = []
diff --git a/src/state-manager/index.ts b/src/state-manager/index.ts
index e6a2b8500..fff939cb5 100644
--- a/src/state-manager/index.ts
+++ b/src/state-manager/index.ts
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ class StateManager {
 
   debugNoTxVoting: boolean
   debugSkipPatcherRepair: boolean
+  debugFailToCommit: boolean
 
   ignoreRecieptChance: number
   ignoreVoteChance: number
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ class StateManager {
 
     this.processCycleSummaries = false //starts false and get enabled when startProcessingCycleSummaries() is called
     this.debugSkipPatcherRepair = config.debug.skipPatcherRepair
+    this.debugFailToCommit = false
 
     this.feature_receiptMapResults = true
     this.feature_partitionHashes = true
@@ -1292,6 +1294,16 @@ class StateManager {
 
     this.partitionStats.setupHandlers()
 
+    // Debug endpoint to toggle fail-to-commit flag
+    Context.network.registerExternalGet('debugFailToCommit', isDebugModeMiddleware, (req, res) => {
+      const { enable } = req.query
+      if (enable !== undefined) {
+        const val = enable === 'true' || enable === '1'
+        this.debugFailToCommit = val
+      }
+      res.json({ debugFailToCommit: this.debugFailToCommit })
+    })
+
     // p2p ASK
     // this.p2p.registerInternal(
     //   'request_receipt_for_tx_old',