About TaxSnap

Last updated: 21 August 2026

What this site is

TaxSnap is a set of free Australian income tax calculators and plain-English guides. You can work out your take-home pay, a HECS or HELP repayment, GST, superannuation, overtime, a pay rise or a salary sacrifice arrangement, and read about how each of those actually works.

There is no account to create, no email to hand over, and no paywall. Every calculation runs inside your own browser, so the figures you type never reach us.

Who publishes it

TaxSnap is published by Clearway Apps, a small Australian web studio that builds websites and web apps for small businesses. TaxSnap is one of its own products rather than client work, which is why it is free and has nothing to sell you.

It is a small independent operation, not an accounting firm and not a large media publisher. That is worth stating plainly, because it tells you exactly how to read what is here.

What we are not

We are not accountants, not registered tax agents, and not financial advisers. Nothing on this site is personal advice, and we are not licensed to give any. We cannot tell you whether to salary sacrifice, whether to pay down a study debt, or what to claim on your return, and any page that appears to do so is describing general rules rather than advising you.

What we can do is arithmetic, carefully, against the rates the ATO actually publishes, and explain the mechanics in language that does not assume you already know them. Where a decision has consequences, the right next step is the ATO or a registered tax agent, and we say so on the page rather than at the bottom in small print.

How the numbers are verified

Australian tax content goes stale quickly and quietly. Rates change on 1 July, two financial years are live at once, and an enormous amount of what is written online does not say which year it is describing. So this site works to three rules:

1. Every rate is transcribed from a named ATO page, not from another calculator or a summary article.
2. Every page records the date those sources were last read. For this build that was 21 August 2026.
3. Where the ATO has not yet published a figure, we say so rather than estimating it. As at 21 August 2026 that applies to the Medicare levy low-income thresholds, the foreign resident tables, the working holiday maker tables and the working from home fixed rate for FY2026-27. Each is flagged where it is used: on the sources page in full, and in the calculator itself when you select a residency that depends on one.

There is one more rule that matters as much: the calculators and the pre-computed figures on every page share a single tax engine. The number in a table and the number the calculator produces cannot drift apart, because they are the same code.

See every rate, its source and the date checked.

Which financial year the site uses

By default, FY2026-27, the year currently running. That is the correct basis for a take-home pay figure. If you are preparing a tax return, switch the year selector to FY2025-26, because a return lodged now covers the year that ended on 30 June 2026. This distinction is the single most common source of wrong numbers in Australian tax content, and the site is built around getting it right.

How it is funded

TaxSnap is free and is supported by advertising. The Google AdSense tag is on the site and it is awaiting review, so you will not see ads on it yet. Advertising has no bearing on any figure or recommendation here: the rates come from the ATO, and no advertiser has any influence over what this site says. When ads do appear they will be clearly distinguishable from the content, and never dressed up to look like a calculator result or a recommendation. Exactly what the ad tag does, and what it does not.

Corrections

If a figure looks wrong, please tell us. Accuracy is the entire value of a site like this, and a wrong bracket on a tax page is a real problem for a real person. Tell us on the contact page, with the page and the figure, and we will check it against the ATO source and correct it if it is wrong.