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TakeHome API, with the workings attached

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An API that calculates UK take-home pay, including income tax, National Insurance, student loans and pensions, and returns its assumptions and sources.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-08 issue.
For
Developers building UK pay or tax features
Worth noticing
The example includes all six Scottish income-tax bands and links individual results to government rate sources.

Field notes

The homepage provides a curl request with salary, Scottish region, a Plan 2 loan and a salary-sacrifice pension, then shows a trimmed JSON response. It lists tax-year coverage, the personal-allowance taper and multiple pension methods among its supported cases. A free key is listed with 100 calls per month; the page also describes a shared daily allowance for MCP use and per-call USDC payments through x402.

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