Why this site exists.

Quick Tax Calc is built by Income Tax Ltd, the team behind income-tax.co.uk, one of the UK’s long-standing salary calculators, as its modern successor. Working out take-home pay is a solved problem: the rules are public and the arithmetic is mechanical. Yet the calculators most people land on (older generations of our own included) are covered in adverts, ask you to press a button and wait, and drift out of date, while rebuilding we found live, incorrect 2026/27deductions on some of the UK’s most-visited salary calculators.

So this is the version of the tool we always wanted to run:

• Verified. Every rate, band and threshold is read from GOV.UK and the verification date is published, with the sources linked. The engine has a test for every rule, including HMRC’s own worked examples.
• Instant. The result updates as you type, with the band-by-band working one click away. No submit button, no page reload.
• Quiet by design. No analytics, no cookies, no email capture. The privacy policy is short because there is genuinely nothing to disclose.
• Complete where it counts. Scottish bands, all five student-loan plans (they stack), three pension methods, the £100k taper, marriage and blind allowances, the options that change real answers, without the wall of fields.

It is an estimate tool, not an adviser, the disclaimer explains the boundary honestly. Found something wrong, or something you wish it did? Tell us , accuracy reports are answered first.