Saturday, Sep 26, 2026
Federal and state income tax, sales tax, property tax and the filing rules that go with them. Every rate here is dated and attributed — tax figures change every January, and a stale number is worse than none.
Work out a number using the rates we publish.
Ranked picks, with the criteria stated first.
How a rule works, and what it means for you.
Tipped workers can deduct up to $25,000 of qualified tips for 2025 through 2028, but tips are still income and still owe Social Security and Medicare tax.
The overtime deduction covers only the premium half of time-and-a-half, not the whole overtime paycheck, and payroll tax applies either way.
If nobody withholds tax for you, the IRS wants it in four uneven installments, and one safe harbor rule makes the underpayment penalty impossible.
The $600 Form 1099-K threshold was repealed and the old $20,000 and 200-transaction test is back, but nothing about it changed what counts as taxable income.
Guide The brackets moved. The standard deduction moved. So did the wage base, the IRA limit, and the AMT exemption. Here is all of it in one place.
Guide You calculate your taxes twice. If the second number is bigger, that is what you owe.
Guide Sell after a year and the gain has its own rate schedule, with a genuine 0% band underneath it.
Guide $16,100 for single filers, and most people should just take it.
Guide Five states charge no sales tax. Louisiana charges more than 10% once local rates are added.
Guide The 7.65% that disappears from every paycheck, and where it stops.
Guide Seven brackets, from 10% to 37%, and none of them tax all of your income.
Guide Eight states tax no wage income at all, but they make it up elsewhere.
Guide The 22% taken out of your bonus is withholding, not what you actually owe.
