Tax Form Calculator

How to estimate your tax return

You can quickly estimate your tax return by following the steps in the Simplified Tax Return Calculation below, alternatively use the advanced features for more specific tax calculations (instructions available below the calculator)

Tip:

1. Use the Advanced Tax Calculator to edit your refundable and non-refundable tax credits
2. Ensure you click calculate after you make changes

Simplified Tax Return Calculation

1. Enter your Yearly income.
2. Select State for State Tax Calculation.
3. Press Calculate to see your tax and take home breakdown - Tax made Simple

The Tax Calculator is now set to use the 2017/2018 tax tables by default. If you are looking to estimate your historical tax rebate please choose the advanced option and change the tax year.

Yearly Tax Calculator

You may prefer to use the State Tax calculator which is updated to include the State tax tables and rates for 2017-2018 tax year.

How to use the advanced tax calculator

1. Enter your Yearly income.
2. Check the box - Advanced Federal Tax Calculator
3. Confirm Tax Year for Tax Calculation
4. Choose Standard or Itimized Tax Return Calculation
5. Confirm Number of Dependants
6. Confirm Number of Children you claim Tax Credits for
7. Enter Tax Withholdings for Tax Rebate Calculation
8. Select other relevant tax factors (Age related tax allowances, head of household tax allowance, tax-deferred retirement plan, cafeteria etc)
9. Click Calculate to see your tax, medicare and take home breakdown - Federal Tax made Simple

Recent Updates to the Tax Form Calculator

[19^rd Aug 2017]: Illinois State Tax increased from 3.75% to 4.95% with effect of 01 July 2017

[23^rd May 2016]: Additional Medicare Tax added for those who exceed the annual earning threshold. This feature is integrated with all of our tax calculators. We have also provided a dedicated FICA calculator for those who just wish to calculate / audit this specific tax element.

[09^th May 2016]: New Comment Feature. We have added a new comment feature to certain pages to allow you to provide direct feedback. This is for those who prefer not to contact us directly or if you want to leave any comments about the site or the tax and finance tools we provide. Be nice please..

[04^th May 2016]: New site design. As a final push to maintain this site as a free resource we have redesigned the layout and added some new tools. Our aim is to increase your user experience and encourage those who use ad-blocking software to turn it off or add us to the white list in your ad-blocking software. The increasing use of ad-blocking software by our users has meant that we are struggling to sustain the tax Form Calculator as a free resource and are currently considering either charging for the service or scrapping the site completely. If you care about the web and like free tools, please don't block the ads!. We know ads can be annoying but this site is free to use, help us keep it that way.

[29^th March 2016]: IRA and 401k calculators integrated into the Tax Calculator. Select advanced, use settings 'I am between 50 and 65 years of age' as relevant and 'IRA and 401K Calculator' inputs to calculate 401K and IRA as part of your tax return calculation. More info on using the IRA / 401K Calculator here.

[02^th March 2016]: For our Canadian users: We are working on a comprehensive Canadian Federal, Province and Non-resident Tax Calculator, we expect to have all elements fully integrated by the end of April (print, save, etc.). Take a look and let us know your thoughts, as always we tweak our calculators design, look and outputs to suit our communities needs. We will be providing a similar interface for the US Tax Calculator this year pending further community feedback.

[10^th October 2015]: 2016 Tax tables integrated into the Tax Calculator.

The Federal Tax calculator is updated to include the latest Federal tax rates for 2015-16 tax year as published by the IRS.

2017/2018 Tax Refund Calculator

Calculate your total tax due using the tax calculator (updated to include the 2017 tax brackets). Deduct the amount of tax paid from the tax calculation to provide an illustration of your 2017/2018 tax refund.

Tax Illustrations

Looking for a quick snapshot tax illustration and example of how to calculate your tax return? Go to our Salary Tax Illustrations and select an annual salary assessment for an instant tax illustration with tax breakdown and Medicare example.

Updates to the 2017 Tax Calculator

The following updates have been applied to the Tax calculator:

• Selectable Tax year.
• Tax calculations allow for Tax-Deferred Retirement Plan.
• Tax calculations allow for Cafeteria or other Pre-Tax Plans.
• Selectable Tax year.
• Updated to include 2017 Federal tax rates.
• Updated to apply Medicare and Social Security deductions as Pre-Federal Tax calculation Thank you Justin Duel.
• Calculate Child Tax Credit Refunds.
• Apply Local Tax rate deductions.
• Apply Earned Income Tax Credits (Currently works with Child Tax Credits only, further suggestions welcome).
• Personal Exemptions Phaseout added.

Note: Deaf, Blind or Disabled and Qualified Disabled Veterans are currently active for Michigan only. If you would like these activated for your state, please leave a message on our tax forums, ideally you should also confirm the allowance amount for your State as well.

This federal tax calculator is as good as the feedback, your support, requests and bug catches help to improve the accuracy of the tax calculator for all.

This tax calculator aims to balance ease of use with transparency of tax calculation but is provided for illustration only. Remember that you should always seek professional advice and audit your tax return

If you would like us to add anything information to the Tax Calculator or have a comment (always good to have positive feedback! also good to have 'this could be better if...' type feedback too.), please contact us, thank you..