2025-26 tax rates

Your real take-home pay

See your income tax, Medicare levy and what actually hits your bank account — plus the tax cuts arriving 1 July 2026.

What's your real take-home pay?
Your income tax, Medicare levy, study loan and salary sacrifice — the honest number that actually lands in your account.

You take home

$67,012

per year ($67,012/year) — an effective tax rate of 21%.

Take-home

$67,012

Income tax

$16,288

Medicare

$1,700

Marginal rate: 30% — the tax on your next dollar earned.

Tax cuts are coming

From 1 July 2026 you'll pay $268 less a year (the 16% rate drops to 15%), rising to $536 less from July 2027 (14%). Already law.

Resident rates, 2025-26, incl. the 2% Medicare levy (with the low-income reduction). Excludes the Medicare levy surcharge, private health offsets and other offsets. A guide, not tax advice.