Yearly Federal Tax Calculator 2020/2021 | 2020 Tax Refund Calculator

Yearly Tax Form Calculator [ Federal & State ]
Results for:
Tax Year
Filing Status:
Tax State
Gross Income (F1040 L7-21)	$
*** Please Enter your Yearly Gross income.
Gross Expenses (F1040 L23-35)	$
FICA Exempt Income	$
Advanced Tax Calculator

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Calculate and estimate your 2020/2021 tax return, simply enter your gross salary. If you wish to calculate your tax return for a previous tax year, select historic tax years from the dropdown menu. The tax calculator uses 2020/2021 State tax tables.

The Yearly Federal Tax Calculator 2020/21 is an easy to use online Tax calculator with Personal allowance (refundable & non-refundable tax credits), Federal Tax, State Tax, Medicare, Social Security and Yearly Income Tax deductions. The Tax calculator is free to use, our only request is that you provide feedback is you spot an error and share on your favourite social media platform to help us grow and maintain this free income tax tool.

Did you know we also provide individual Federal tax forms online which automatically calculate your tax deductions? We also provide individual state tax forms for specific states (inc. California and New York), we continue to add tax forms weekly and aim to provide an auto-calculating tax calculator for each tax form in each State.

Tips for using the Tax Form Calculator

Use the Advanced Tax Calculator to edit your refundable and non-refundable tax credits
Ensure you click calculate after you make changes
Use the drop down to select different tax calculation results, view specific tax worksheet examples and find tailored calculations to support your tax return calculations.

Quick Salary Calculation

Enter your Yearly income and expenses as required
Select State for State Tax Calculation.
Press Calculate to see your salary after tax and take home breakdown - Tax made Simple

Your Income in detail (F1040 L7-21)
7	Wages, salaries, tips, etc.	$
8a	Taxable interest	$
8b	Taxable interest	$
9a	Ordinary dividends	$
10	Taxable refunds, credits, offsets etc.	$
11	Alimony received	$
12	Business income or loss	$
13	Capital gain or loss	$
14	Other gains or losses	$
15b	IRA distributions (Taxable)	$
16b	Pensions and annuities (Taxable)	$
17	Rental real estate, royalties etc.	$
18	Farm income or loss	$
19	Unemployment compensation	$
20a	Social security benefits¹	$
21	Other income	$
22	Gross Income	$
¹ Line 20a not included in Gross income, See Social Security Benefits calculation for calculation on line 20b as part of Taxable income

Your Expenses in detail (F1040 L23-35)
23	Educator expenses	$
24	Certain business expenses of reservists etc	$
25	Health savings account deduction.	$
26	Moving expenses	$
27	Deductible part of self-employment tax	$
28	Self-employed SEP, SIMPLE etc.	$
29	Self-employed health insurance deduction	$
30	Penalty on early withdrawal of savings	$
311	Alimony paid b Recipient's SSN	$
32	IRA deduction	$
33	Student loan interest deduction	$
34	Tuition and fees	$
35	Domestic production activities deduction	$
36	Gross Expenses	$

Your Tax Status & Family
Please select all that apply
I am between 50 and 65 years of age I am 65 years of age or older My spouse is 65 years of age or older I am blind My spouse is blind
	Deaf, Blind or disabled¹
	Qualified Disabled Veterans
	Number of your dependants¹
	Number of children for Tax Credit claim
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Deduction and Local Tax Options
	Add Local Tax? %
	Add Itemized Deductions? $

Additional Tax Considerations
IRA and 401K Calculator
$	Gross Yearly 401K Withholding
$	Gross Yearly IRA Deductions
Withholdings Calculator
$	Gross Yearly Federal Withholding
$	Gross Yearly State Withholding
$	Gross Yearly Medicare Withholding
$	Gross Yearly Social Security Withholding
$	Gross Yearly Tax-Deferred Retirement Plan
$	Gross Yearly Cafeteria or other pre-tax plan
$	Gross Yearly Earned Income Tax Credit
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¹ Do not include yourself or your spouse.

The Tax Form Calculator allows you to calculator your salary after tax and estimate your annual tax return to help reduce the amount of income tax you pay each year by making the most of tax credits and personal tax allowances

Advanced Tax Calculator Guide

The advanced features of the Tax Form Calculator provide more control of expense deductions and tax credits, allowing you to produce an estimation of your annual tax return so you can manage your tax withholdings.

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

State Tax Form Calculators

Select one of the specific state tax calculators from the list below to calculate state specific tax and salary after tax estimates based on specific states.

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)

Yearly Tax Calculator

You may prefer to use the State Tax calculator which is updated to include the State tax tables and rates for 2020-2021 tax year.

2020/2021 Tax Refund Calculator

Calculate your total tax due using the tax calculator (updated to include the 2020/2021 tax brackets). Deduct the amount of tax paid from the tax calculation to provide an illustration of your 2020/2021 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 2020/2021 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.
Specify total income or select advanced for detailed income breakdown, ideal for pensioners and those receiving Social Security Benefits who want to calculate Form 1040 lines 20a and 20b
Specify total expenses or select advanced for detailed expenses breakdown, ideal for pensioners and those receiving Social Security Benefits who want to calculate Form 1040 lines 20a and 20b
Selectable Tax year.
Updated to include 2020/2021 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.

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