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The American Burger's Effective Tax Calculator

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Effective Tax Calculator

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This calculator gives you a way to compare U.S. and Dutch taxation by computing the effective tax rate in both countries. If you made $X living and working in the U.S., how does that compare to making the equivalent €Y living and working in the Netherlands?

The effective tax calculator accepts as input your income, applies the appropriate deductions and tax credits and calculates how much tax you owe.
Click here for help with calculator input fields or to understand how the calculator works.
Disclaimer: I am not a tax professional. This calculator is not intended to serve as an accurate estimation of tax owed.
Visit the case study page to see how compare effective tax rates for a few common scenarios.

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Known limitations of this calculator
  • The calculator only computes tax on income earned as a wage from employment.
  • The U.S. filing status of 'Married, filing separately', 'Head of household' and 'Qualifying widower' are not supported.
  • If you choose 'Married, Filing Jointly' the calculator assumes both partners are U.S. citizens.
  • Itemized deductions are not supported - the calculator uses the standard deduction.
  • USA states have widely different tax regimes ranging from no income tax, to having multiple brackets, to flat rates. For simplicity this calculator uses a flat tax rate only. For the same reason, standard deduction is not applied for US state tax calculations.
  • The calculator uses a child tax credit amount of $2000 per child instead of the temporarily increased amount of this credit.
  • Dutch box1 taxes have different rates if you are of retirement age. This calculator doesn't take this into account.
  • The kinderbijslag (Dutch child allowance) varies based on age of the child. This calculator uses an average.
  • If '30% ruling' is set to true, we assume that it applies to the income of both partners.
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