Free tools. Tax year 2026/27

Calculators that show you the whole sum, not one number

Every one of these runs in your browser, uses current HMRC rates, and shows the working so you can check it. None of them ask for your email first.

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Salary, dividend or pension?

The big one. Set your company profit and see what each route actually leaves you once corporation tax, employer NI, income tax, employee NI and dividend tax have all taken their cut. Compares four ways of paying yourself side by side, and tells you what £100 of profit is worth through each route.

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Company

Corporation tax

The 19 percent small profits rate, the 25 percent main rate, and the marginal relief band between £50,000 and £250,000 where the effective rate is neither.

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Dividend tax

What a dividend costs you personally once your salary has used up the bands, including the dividend allowance and where each rate starts to bite.

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SEIS and EIS relief

What your investor actually gets back after income tax relief and loss relief, which is usually the number that moves a term sheet.

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A calculator gives you the shape - your own facts move the answer

These assume the straightforward case: one shareholder, a twelve month accounting period, nothing unusual. Real companies have student loans, benefits in kind, second shareholders and accounting periods that do not line up. If yours does, the number changes.

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