Turkish Income Tax Calculator 2018

How it is calculated

The tool applies the Turkish wage-earner (ücret) income tax tariff for 2018, a progressive scale where each slice of income is taxed only at its own bracket's rate: 15% up to 14,800, 20% from 14,800 to 34,000, 27% from 34,000 to 120,000 and 35% above that. For each bracket it takes taxable slice × rate and adds them up. Net income is income − total tax, and the effective rate is total tax / income × 100. Enter the annual taxable income in lira. The tool only computes income tax on that figure: it does not deduct social security, stamp tax, minimum-living allowance or other relief, and the 2018 non-wage tariff has a different third bracket limit. Other years and countries use other brackets.

Common mistakes

• Believing the whole income is taxed at the highest bracket reached; only the slice inside each bracket is taxed at that rate.
• Entering the monthly salary when the brackets are annual, which understates the tax.
• Entering gross salary before deducting social security and unemployment contributions, when the tax base is the income after those deductions.
• Using this 2018 tariff for another year's income; thresholds and rates changed in later years.
• Expecting the output to be the final payroll figure, when it excludes stamp tax and the minimum-living allowance of that period.