Tax Calculator
Add VAT or sales tax to a net price, extract it from a gross one, or run income through progressive brackets you define and see the tax and effective rate band by band.
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Tax 50.00 · gross 300.00
How this is calculated
About Tax Calculator
Applies tax rates and thresholds that you supply to an amount, and shows the breakdown band by band. It deliberately has no rates built in: those differ by country, by year and frequently by circumstance, and a baked-in figure would be wrong for most people looking at it. Free online, no sign-up, nothing retained. Your figures are used to produce the estimate and then dropped.
How to use Tax Calculator
- Enter your rates and thresholdsFrom your own tax authority. They are published and they change annually.
- Enter the amountThe figure being taxed, on whatever basis your rules apply to.
- Read the band breakdownHow much falls in each band and what each contributes, which is where marginal and effective rates separate.
Marginal is not effective
In a banded system, moving into a higher band taxes only the portion above the threshold at the higher rate — not the whole amount. Your marginal rate is what the next unit earned is taxed at; your effective rate is total tax divided by total income, and it is always lower. The belief that a raise can leave you worse off comes from confusing the two.
What it does not do
- No jurisdiction, no year, no rates. Everything comes from you, which is the only way a general calculator can be honest.
- Real tax systems have allowances, credits, reliefs, phase-outs and separate treatment for different kinds of income. A banded calculation is a simplification of all of that.
- This is arithmetic, not tax advice. For anything consequential, ask someone qualified in your jurisdiction.
Tax Calculator: questions people ask
- Why does it not know my country tax rates?
- Because rates change every year in most places and differ by circumstance within a country. A built-in figure would be silently wrong for most visitors, and silently wrong is worse than asking.
- Will earning more ever leave me with less?
- Not from banded rates alone — only the amount above a threshold is taxed at the higher rate. It can happen through a benefit or allowance that withdraws sharply at a specific income, which is a cliff edge in that scheme rather than in the tax bands.
- Can I calculate German VAT or income tax with it?
- German VAT, yes: choose Sales tax / VAT, enter 19 for the standard rate, and add it to a net price or extract it from a gross one. German income tax only roughly, because no rates are built in and the German tariff rises along a formula rather than in flat bands. Solidarity surcharge, church tax and social contributions are not included either.
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