Tax year 2025/26 · reviewed 22 August 2026
UK salary & tax calculators
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Featured calculators
The tools people reach for most often.
Salary after tax calculator
Estimate take-home pay from a gross salary, with pension, student loan and bonus.
Open calculatorGross to net calculator
See how a gross figure breaks down into tax, National Insurance and net pay.
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Self-employed tax calculator
Estimate income tax and Class 2/4 National Insurance on trading profit.
Open calculatorVAT calculator
Add or remove VAT at the standard, reduced or zero rate.
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Employee tools
For anyone paid through PAYE who wants to check a payslip, a bonus or a pay rise.
Salary after tax calculator
Estimate take-home pay from a gross salary, with pension, student loan and bonus.
Gross to net calculator
See how a gross figure breaks down into tax, National Insurance and net pay.
Net to gross calculator
Work back from a target monthly take-home to the gross salary it implies.
Hourly rate calculator
Convert an annual salary into hourly, daily, weekly and monthly equivalents.
Overtime calculator
Estimate deductions and net pay on overtime hours at any multiplier.
Bonus tax calculator
Estimate the deductions taken from a bonus and what may land in your account.
Pay rise calculator
Compare a current and new salary to estimate the net monthly difference.
Self-employed & contractor tools
For sole traders, freelancers and contractors working out profit, day rates and tax.
Self-employed tax calculator
Estimate income tax and Class 2/4 National Insurance on trading profit.
Contractor day rate calculator
Estimate the day rate needed to reach a target take-home as a sole trader.
VAT calculator
Add or remove VAT at the standard, reduced or zero rate.
Hourly rate calculator
Convert an annual salary into hourly, daily, weekly and monthly equivalents.
Business tools
Small-business arithmetic, starting with VAT.
Tax guides
Short explainers written to sit beside the calculators, not to replace professional advice.
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Understanding PAYE
Understanding PAYE: how your employer works out deductions
What PAYE does, why your tax code matters, and why two months of the same salary can differ.
Income tax
Income tax explained: allowances, bands and marginal rates
How the personal allowance, the bands and the £100,000 taper interact on earned income.
National Insurance
National Insurance explained: Class 1, Class 2 and Class 4
How employee NI differs from the self-employed classes, and which thresholds apply.
Salary deductions
What comes out of your salary, and in what order
Pension, tax, National Insurance, student loan and net-pay deductions, in sequence.
Self-employed basics
Self-employed basics: revenue, allowable expenses and profit
How trading profit is worked out and why it, not revenue, drives your tax estimate.
VAT
VAT explained: adding it, removing it and the registration threshold
How to move between VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive prices without guessing.
Why you can check our numbers
Published assumptions
Every calculator lists what it assumes, what it ignores and the tax year it used, on the same page as the result.
Named sources and review dates
Rates come from one central configuration with sources and a last-reviewed date. The 2025/26 rules were reviewed on 22 August 2026.
No advice, no pressure
We describe how deductions work and what a figure estimates. We do not tell you what to do with your money.
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