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- New calculators: take-home pay for Texas, Florida and the other states with no income tax; hourly to salary; and a 1099 tax calculator for gig workers and freelancers.
- 2027 tax brackets: bracket calculator for 2027, clearer note for people filing 2026 returns, senior deduction details and sources.
- New: 2027 tax brackets and standard deduction from the IRS; 2027 child tax credit, earned income credit and employer education help amounts added.
- Editorial policy: simpler wording on who runs the site and how pages are checked.
- New: which states tax tips and overtime, a 50-state tracker with a source for every answer; a W-4 calculator for overtime and tips; and refund status guides for Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri.
- Where's My Refund messages: clearer 'still being processed' answer, four more reference codes, tap-to-call numbers, quick links for Tax Topic 152.
- Added automatic checks for the overtime, tips, senior, car loan and Schedule 1-A math.
- Editorial policy: clearer wording on how pages are checked and tested and how ads work; About and privacy match it.
- New: Where's My Refund messages and codes, explained, from Tax Topic 152 to the reference codes.
- Added automatic checks of the calculator math against worked examples built from IRS figures.
- New pages: How we check our numbers and this list of updates.
- Linked the Social Security pages to our sister site, retirekept.com, for retirement questions.
- Tips guide: added a section on how to calculate taxes on tips, with a worked example.
- Fixed issues found in review of the earned income credit, child tax credit and 1099-K pages: a more realistic refundable amount, clearer rules for children, a question about eBay sales, and Schedule 3-A wording.
- Fixed the earned income credit phase-out for people whose total income is higher than their earned income . This changed the EITC page and the refund calculator.
- New pages with small calculators: EITC 2026, child tax credit 2026 and the 1099-K threshold.
- State refund pages: fixed issues found in review, including Kansas timing, the difference between a refund issued and a refund arriving in Louisiana, Alabama's tax law changes, and an easier-to-read table on phones on Where's my refund?.
- New state refund status pages: Iowa, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado and Alabama.
- Wrote down our rules for ads and affiliate links (summarized in our editorial policy).
- Social Security COLA 2027: added the early December 31 payment, SSI and rounding notes, and more on the earnings test. Sidebars no longer link to the page you are on.
- New page: Social Security COLA 2027 (3.6%), with a benefit estimate.
- Child care calculator: fixed the math for dependent care FSA money and earned income, months when a spouse was a student, and the 2025 FSA limit for married filing separately.
- SALT calculator: corrected the phase-down for married filing separately and added the 2026 limit on itemized deductions in the top bracket. Wording fixes on the HSA page.
- New: child care tax credit calculator (for 2026, up to 50% of costs and a $7,500 FSA limit). Other sites can embed it.
- New: SALT deduction calculator with the new $40,400 cap. Other sites can embed it.
- New page: HSA contribution limits 2027, from IRS Rev. Proc. 2026-24.
- Saver's Match calculator: fixed issues found in review, including withdrawals and eligibility for each spouse on a joint return and the rule for Roth deposits.
- New: Saver's Match calculator for the new federal retirement match starting in 2027. Other sites can embed it.
- The home page photo loads faster on phones.
- Student loan calculator: clearer wording and notes, and a clearer link to the refund calculator.
- Student loan calculator: fixed issues found in review. The refund calculator now counts student loan interest.
- New: student loan interest deduction calculator with 2025 and 2026 limits. Other sites can embed it.
- Average refund page: fixed issues found in review (wording, chart and tables on phones, the CSV download, keyboard use).
- New page: average tax refund 2026, with IRS weekly data, a chart and a free CSV download.
- Fixed issues found in review: wording on the IRS app page, the years and corrected W-2 steps on the W-2 code TT page, and source links.
- New pages: W-2 box 12 code TT, the IRS app and Michigan's overtime and tips deduction.
- Fixed issues found in review of the newest pages.
- Updated pages for 2026 IRS changes found in our regular check of IRS news.
- New page: what's new for the 2027 tax season.
- The IRS is phasing out paper refund checks: updated the refund schedule, its PDF and the refund date calculator.
- New pages: credit for other dependents, Form W-4 2026, IRS transcript codes and CP2000 notices.
- Fixed issues found in a second review and in a walk-through as a first-time visitor.
- Fixed issues found in review of the overtime pay, states with no income tax and Form 4137 pages.
- New: overtime pay calculator, states with no income tax and a Form 4137 guide.
- When an ad is shown at the bottom of the screen, the calculator result bar now sits above it instead of being covered.
- New: Trump account calculator.
- New refund status pages: Michigan, Ohio and IRS amended returns.
- New: IRS refund schedule 2027, with a week-by-week chart and a PDF download.
- New: 2026 tax brackets and standard deduction, with a bracket calculator.
- Second review: shared result links now show exactly the same result, plus fixes to the result bar and forms.
- Usability fixes from a persona walkthrough.
- Fixed issues found in review of shared result links and embedded calculators.
- You can now share a link to your result, and other sites can embed our calculators.
- Set up Google ads and added an advertising section to the privacy policy.
- Added worked examples, tables and common questions to the shorter guide pages.
- Fixed accuracy issues found in a review of the tax rules.
- Fixes from code and search review.
- New refund status pages from official state sources: California, New York and New Jersey.
- Fixed state refund tracker links: the correct New Jersey page, removed Connecticut and Kansas links that no longer worked, and pointed Colorado to the agency's home page.
- New: Where's my refund?, with a refund date estimator and checked links to every state tracker.
- Each page now has its own preview image when shared on social media.
- New: 2026 tax refund calculator with dependents (child tax credit, credit for other dependents, earned income credit and the Schedule 1-A deductions).
- Interactive Schedule 1-A calculator, lines 1 to 38, and layout fixes for the calculator forms.
- New pages: About, How we calculate, Privacy and Terms.
- New guides: which cars qualify for the car loan deduction, used cars, leases and refinancing, and no tax on overtime by state.
- The whole calculator now fits on one desktop screen. New guides: how no tax on tips works, the senior deduction phase-out and Schedule 1-A.
- New overtime guides: how it works, who qualifies, when it starts, the income limit and California.
- New calculators: no tax on tips, $6,000 senior deduction and car loan interest.
- Checked the calculator rules against IRS sources and fixed rounding in the phase-out. Added archival photographs.
- First page: the no tax on overtime calculator.
Updated November 7, 2026, from the site's edit history. How we check pages: our editorial policy.