KY Tax Calculator 2025 | Kentucky Tax Calculator

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The Kentucky State Tax Calculator (KYS Tax Calculator) uses the latest Federal tax tables and State Tax tables for 2025/26. To estimate your tax return for 2025/26, please select the 2025 tax year.

You can quickly estimate your Kentucky State Tax and Federal Tax by selecting the tax year, your filing status, Gross Income and Gross Expenses, this is a great way to compare salaries in Kentucky and for quickly estimating your tax commitments in 2025. Alternatively, you can enter specific information into the Income, Expenses, Tax Status etc. tabs and produce a more detailed tax calculation for Kentucky including applying any additional local / County taxes which you may be subject to.

Kentucky Tax Calculator [ Federal & State ]
Kentucky Tax Calculator - Quick Tax Estimator
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Kentucky County/Local Tax Options
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What is the "Kentucky County/Local Tax Options" tab for?
There are a lot of different tax systems in the USA and this can often make it difficult to cater for all local and county taxes. This tab allows you to enter your local / county tax rate in Kentucky manually so you can have a more refined tax calculation / forecast for your tax return in Kentucky
The 529 Plan Contributions allows tax deductions in certain states, currently the Tax Form Calculator only applies this tax credit in Indiana, please contact us if your State provides 529 Plan Contributions tax credits and we will integrate it into this tool.
IRA and 401K Calculator
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Withholdings Calculator
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What is the Withholdings Calculator tab for?
The Withholdings inputs allow you to enter funds that you have already kept to one side for payment of your annual Kentucky taxes and/or your Federal Taxes. This is a useful section if you are looking to save money to pay your annual tax return and are using the Kentucky Tax Calculator to estimate your Kentucky state taxes and Federal taxes.

Kentucky State Tax Calculator ( Tax Calculator)

The Kentucky tax calculator is updated for the 2025/26 tax year. The KY Tax Calculator calculates Federal Taxes (where applicable), Medicare, Pensions Plans (FICA Etc.) allow for single, joint and head of household filing in KYS.

The Kentucky income tax calculator is designed to provide a salary example with salary deductions made in Kentucky. You can choose an alternate State Tax Calculator below:

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How to calculate income tax in Kentucky in

How to use the tax calculator

  1. Enter your annual income in Kentucky.
  2. Press Calculate to see your Kentucky tax and take home breakdown including Federal Tax deductions

How to use the advanced Kentucky tax calculator

  1. Enter your income.
  2. Check the box - Advanced KYS Income Tax Calculator
  3. Confirm Number of Dependants
  4. Confirm Number of Children you claim Tax Credits for
  5. Select other relevant tax factors (Age related tax allowances, head of household tax allowance, tax-deferred retirement plan, cafeteria etc)
  6. Click Calculate to see your tax, medicare and take home breakdown - Federal Tax made Simple

2025/26 Kentucky State Tax Refund Calculator

Calculate your total tax due using the KY tax calculator (update to include the 2025/26 tax brackets). Deduct the amount of tax paid from the tax calculation to provide an example of your 2025/26 tax refund.

The Kentucky State Tax calculator is updated to include:

  1. The latest Federal tax rates for 2025/26 tax year as published by the IRS
  2. The latest State tax rates for 2025/26 tax year and will be update to the 2026/2027 State Tax Tables once fully published as published by the various States.

Updates to the Kentucky State 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 2025/26 Federal tax rates
  • Updated to apply Medicare and Social Security deductions as Pre-Federal Tax calculation Thank you Justin Duel

The Kentucky State 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 KY State Tax Calculator balances ease of use with transparency of salary calculation but is provided for example purposes only. Remember that you should always seek professional advice and audit your KY State and Federal tax returns.