Free tools. Tax year 2026/27

Tools for running the business, not just filing the tax

Your numbers, in your browser, working shown. Never behind a form.

Running the business

Four decisions founders make on instinct. Each one asks you to guess first.

New. Hiring

Can you afford to hire?

The salary is about 70% of what they cost you.

Work out the real cost
New. Pricing

What a discount really costs you

10% off needs 25% more volume, just to stand still.

See the curve
New. Cash

How long is your cash trapped?

What you are funding, in someone else's bank account.

Find the trapped cash
New. Growth

The VAT threshold ambush

Past £90,000 you can earn more and keep less.

See the dead zone

Tax

Current HMRC rates, and the full sum rather than one number.

Interactive

The Founder Money Leak

Eleven questions that find what you lose every year.

Start the diagnostic
Planner

Salary, dividend or pension?

What four ways of paying yourself actually leave you.

Open the planner
Company

Corporation tax

19%, 25%, and the band where it is neither.

Open the calculator
Personal

Dividend tax

What a dividend costs you once your salary has used the bands.

Open the calculator
Raising

SEIS and EIS relief

What your investor gets back after relief.

Open the calculator

These give you the shape - your own facts move the answer

They assume the straightforward case. Student loans, benefits in kind, a second shareholder or an odd year end all change the number.

Absolv is a chartered accountancy firm for UK founders. Flat monthly fee, filing as well as advice.

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