People use our calculators to plan real decisions: accepting a job offer, setting a rate, checking a payslip. These are the standards every page is held to.
Accuracy first
- Every rate, threshold and formula comes from an official source, which is linked on the page. See the methodology.
- Figures quoted in the text — "£35,000 leaves £28,719.60" — are computed by the same calculator code at build time, so text and calculator cannot disagree.
- We do not publish a calculator until it reproduces every worked example the tax authority publishes for it.
- If we cannot confirm a value from an official source, we either leave the feature out or label the value as provisional.
Written for each country
Each country's pages are written for that country, in its language and its own terms — Lohnsteuer and Solidaritätszuschlag in Germany, 手取り and 住民税 in Japan, PAYE and USC in Ireland. We do not translate one country's page into another's.
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- The site is funded by advertising. Advertisers have no influence on any calculation or text, and ads are always labelled and kept separate from results.
- We do not accept payment for links, reviews or placement.
Plain language
We explain what a deduction is and why it applies, avoid jargon where a plain word works, and say clearly what a calculator does not include. We never present an estimate as an official figure.
Updates
Rules are re-checked around every scheduled change date in each country and whenever an authority announces a change. Each page shows the tax year and the month its rules were last checked, and every published change is listed in the changelog.
Corrections
When we find or are told about an error, we check it against the official source. Confirmed errors are fixed promptly, and any correction to a published figure is listed on the corrections page with the date, what was wrong and what changed. Reports can be sent through the contact page.
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