- Use this calculator if: you have more than one personal income source — a salaried job plus a side hustle, salary plus rental property, pension drawdown plus dividend portfolio, etc. It applies HMRC's Self Assessment ordering (PA → non-savings → dividends) and totals income tax + Class 1 NI + Class 4 NI.
- Single income source? Use a dedicated calculator instead: PAYE for employment, Sole Trader for self-employment only, Dividend for investments only.
- Run your own Limited Company? The two calculators are complementary, not duplicates: the Limited Co calculator models the company side (Corporation Tax + Employer NI + what salary/dividends you draw, with optimal-split). Then use this SA estimator to add up other personal income that lives outside the company — rental property, external share dividends, freelance side hustle, pension drawdown.
- Trading allowance (£1,000) is applied automatically to self-employment when it beats your actual expenses.
- Enter rental income net of allowable expenses. UK property is taxed as non-savings income; foreign rental belongs in "Other".
- ISA / pension dividends are tax-free — don't include them. Only General Investment Account (GIA) dividends are taxable here.
- Not yet modelled in v1: savings interest with Personal Savings Allowance, High Income Child Benefit Charge, Payments on Account cash-flow timing, Capital Gains Tax. See HMRC SA guidance.