uk-tax-calculator

UK Tax Calculator (2017/18)

This package allows you to calculate UK income tax. It also gives you a detailed breakdown of each part of the tax calculations.

Installation

You can install the package via the NPM registry.

npm install uk-tax-calculator

yarn add uk-tax-calculator

Setup

You will need to import the package into your project and then instantiate it with an income value;

import TaxCalculator from 'uk-tax-calculator';
 
const incomeTax = new TaxCalculator(60000);
 
console.log( 'Net Yearly Income: ' + incomeTax.getTotalNetPayPerYear() );

Options

defaults

{
  age: 30,
  studentLoanPlan: 0,
  blind: false,
  pensionContributions: 0.00
}

age - Number

This options reprents the age of the person you are calculating the income tax form.

studentLoanPlan - Number

This option represents the student loan plan of the person you are calculating the income tax for.

0 - No plan
1 - Plan 1
2 - Plan 2

Plan 1

• English and Welsh students who started before 1 September 2012
• all Scottish and Northern Irish students
• You pay back 9% of your income over the minimum amount of £17,775.

Plan 2

• Plan 2 is for English and Welsh students who started on or after 1 September 2012.
• You pay back 9% of your income over the minimum amount of £21,000.

No plan

• No repayments will be made as you have no student loan

Blind - Boolean

This options represents whether or not the person is blind. Extra tax allowances are allocated for blind individuals.

pensionContributions - Number

This option represents the amount the person is paying into a pension.

Methods

setOptions(object)

Allows to change the options

import TaxCalculator from 'uk-tax-calculator';
const incomeTax = new TaxCalculator(60000);
incomeTax.setOptions({
  age: 50,
  blind: true,
  pensionContributions: 5000.00,
  studentLoanPlan: 1
});

getOptions

Returns the current calculator options

getSettings

Returns the current tax year settings

getTaxBreakdown

Returns a full breakdown of net income and tax deductions

import TaxCalculator from 'uk-tax-calculator';
const incomeTax = new TaxCalculator(60000);
console.log( 
  incomeTax.getTaxBreakdown()
);

Returns

{
    netIncome: {
        yearly: 42576.32,
        monthly: 3548.03,
        weekly: 818.78,
        daily: 116.65
    },
    personalAllowance: 11500,
    paye: {
        rate_0: {
            tax: 0,
            carry: 48500
        },
        rate_20: {
            tax: 6700,
            carry: 15000
        },
        rate_40: {
            tax: 6000,
            carry: 0
        },
        rate_45: {
            tax: 0,
            carry: 0
        }
    },
    nationalInsurance: {
        rate_0: {
            tax: 0,
            carry: 996.8499999999999
        },
        rate_12: {
            tax: 85.08,
            carry: 287.8499999999999
        },
        rate_2: {
            tax: 5.76,
            carry: 0
        }
    },
    studentLoan: {
        plan: 'NO_PLAN',
        threshold: 0,
        rate: 0,
        repayment: 0
    }
}

getTotalNetPayPerYear

Returns total net pay per year rounded to 2 decimal places