£1,005,704.
That’s the tax on one ordinary career.

You would never commit a million pounds to anything else without a statement, a forecast and a second opinion — yet a career on £85,000 hands over £1,005,704 in direct tax alone. Kept gives tax the treatment you give a mortgage: the full number below in seconds, then a twenty-year forecast of what each legitimate relief is worth to your household.

Guess your lifetime tax bill. Then check it.

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Computed on your device with 2026/27 rates — nothing you type here is sent or stored.

Type an income to see the number nobody shows you.

Your total tax for the year — income tax, National Insurance and, for company owners, the company layer too. Then what it adds up to over 20 years.

The dashboard — free for every household

Every lever in the tax code, with your numbers attached.

The estimate above is the surface. The Kept dashboard rebuilds your full position — both incomes, savings, pensions, the child benefit — and lets you flip each relief on and off to watch your tax bill and your 20-year wealth react. Every figure traces to an input you gave and a rule we cite.

  • Your current position, decomposed. Income tax, National Insurance, tax on savings interest, the child benefit clawback — and the allowances you’re silently losing, like the £100k taper.
  • Reliefs that stack correctly. Pension contributions change the taper, which changes what everything else is worth. Kept recomputes the whole picture, not one relief at a time.
  • The household, not just the payslip. Savings on the right side of the marriage, gift aid actually claimed, ISAs used on purpose — the levers one-salary calculators can’t see. (Run a company? The director toolkit is Kept Business.)
  • The long game, on one chart. Baseline vs plan, out to retirement, under cautious, average and optimistic returns — with your actual savings rates. Watch a £10,000 pension contribution become six figures of kept wealth.

Sample plan — £110,000 salary, married, two children

Salary sacrifice into pension · £15,000−£8,140 tax/yr
Gift aid, actually claimed · £1,000−£250 tax/yr
Move £20,000 of savings into ISAs−£340 tax/yr
Electric car via salary sacrificewould save £1,800/yr
Kept this year — levers interact, so it’s not a simple sum£9,160

No secrets here

None of this is hidden. All of it is unadvertised.

There’s no loophole. There’s a rulebook roughly 20,000 pages long, and nobody is paid to read you your chapter. Every lever Kept models sits in HMRC’s own manuals — reliefs Parliament wrote on purpose, waiting to be claimed. You weren’t negligent. You were never sent the bill.

The personal dashboard is free. Kept Business costs less than one lever saves.

No card, no trial clock, no cut-down version. An account exists for one reason: saving your household so you can pick it up on any device. Run a company? On £120,000 of profit, the standard draw and the pension-assisted draw sit £10,556 a year apart — Kept Business prices those levers on your actual numbers, and if it can’t find you more than £199, it says so.

Personal

Free
  • Your full household tax position, live
  • Every personal relief modelled: pensions (incl. the £100k trap), ISAs & Lifetime ISA, gift aid, income splitting, VCT/EIS/SEIS with honest risk maths
  • Simulations to retirement under cautious, average and optimistic returns
  • Company owners: the read-out on your draw — corporation tax inferred, where the profit goes
  • The household summary, printable
Start with the walkthrough

Rather skip it? Open the dashboard bare and fill it in as you go.

Kept Business

£199 / year
  • Everything in Personal, plus the owner levers on your plan: pension paid by the company, your partner’s share, the car
  • Expenses through the company, item by item
  • Extraction modeller: salary / bonus / dividend / pension mix on your profit
  • Invest via the company vs extract-and-invest
  • Exit strategies (BADR sale, liquidation, drawdown) and sole-trader vs limited structure
  • The accountant pack, printable
See Kept Business

Business renews automatically — we email you before it does, and you can cancel in one click from your account. Full refund within 14 days, no questions. Guidance, not regulated financial advice.