About My Tax Freedom Day
Independent, plain-English tools and writing that turn confusing tax numbers into something you can actually understand and act on.
Why this site exists
Tax is one of the largest expenses in almost everyone's life, yet it is described in language designed to be ignored: percentages, brackets, allowances and acronyms. My Tax Freedom Day was built on one conviction — that people make better financial decisions when abstract tax figures are translated into something concrete and personal, like a date on the calendar or a clear chart of where the money goes.
This is an independent site. It is not affiliated with any government, tax authority, political organisation or financial-services company, and it doesn't sell tax-preparation services. That independence lets it explain how tax actually works without trying to sell you anything on the back of it.
Who's behind this site
My Tax Freedom Day is an independent one-person project. It started as a personal passion project — a way to turn a fascination with how tax systems work into tools and guides worth sharing — and it is still built and maintained that way, with no staff, sponsors or outside contributors. The tax rules are researched from primary official sources, the calculators are built to model them, and the guides are written to explain them. Every page carries a “last reviewed” date so you always know how fresh it is.
Our calculations are documented in full on the Methodology & Data Sources page — including exactly which taxes we model and which official authorities and OECD datasets we draw on.
Our editorial standards
- Primary sources first. Tax figures come from official national revenue authorities, cross-checked against OECD data — never copied from other blogs.
- Honest about limits. Our tools give estimates, and we say plainly what they include and exclude rather than implying false precision.
- Reviewed and dated. Content is checked at the start of each tax year and after major budget changes, and every page is dated.
- Independent. No government, party or company funds or directs our content.
- Not advice. We provide education, not personalised tax, legal or financial advice.
What you'll find here
Eleven free calculators — Tax Freedom Day, Salary, Pay Rise, Bonus Tax, Hourly ↔ Salary, Compound Interest, Inflation Impact, Where Do My Taxes Go?, a FIRE planner, Compare Countries and a Mortgage payoff tool — covering 14 countries, alongside a growing library of articles that explains the concepts behind them. Everything runs locally in your browser; we never store or transmit the income figures you enter, as set out in our Privacy Policy.
How this site is funded
The calculators and articles are free and always will be. The site's costs are covered by display advertising, and by nothing else: we sell no products, take no commissions, accept no sponsored posts and run no affiliate links. Advertising never influences what we write — ad placements are automated and advertisers have no visibility into or say over our content. Where advertising cookies are involved, nothing loads until you've made a choice in the consent banner, as described in our Privacy Policy.
Corrections
Tax rules change constantly, and a site covering 14 countries will sometimes lag or err. When a reader reports a mistake, we verify it against the official source, fix the page, and refresh its “last reviewed” date. If you spot a figure that doesn't match your country's current rules, please tell us — corrections are the most valuable mail we get.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections or suggestions are genuinely welcome — reader feedback is how we catch errors and decide what to write next. Reach us through the contact page.