Pay & tax
Capital Gains Tax Calculator
The tax on a gain from selling shares, property or a business, worked out under your country's own rules, allowances, holding periods and income bands.
Tax on the gain
$2,250
on a gain of $15,000, which leaves $12,750 after tax
Gain
$15,000
after $20,000 of cost
Taxed amount
$15,000
the whole gain
Proceeds after tax
$32,750
sale price less costs and tax
2026, United States rules. An estimate from published rates, confirm current figures with the official source.
- Gain kept$12,750.0085%
- Tax$2,250.0015%
From the sale to the tax
- Gain$15,000
- Federal capital gains tax$2,250.00
How Federal capital gains tax was worked out
15,000 stacked on 58,900 of other taxable income, after the 16,100 standard deduction, in the long-term bands.
Federal capital gains tax by band Band Rate Gain in band Tax $49,450 to $545,500 15% $15,000 $2,250.00 - Total tax$2,250.00
How this was calculated
Every rate, allowance and holding period comes from the datasets listed under Data sources on this page, with the official publication each was taken from.
The gain is the sale price less the purchase price and the costs of buying and selling. United States's rate depends on your other income, so the gain is priced on top of $75,000 using the same brackets and allowances as the take-home pay calculator. The figures assume this is your only sale in the year.
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How this is calculated
The calculator takes the sale price, subtracts what you paid and what buying and selling cost, and hands the resulting gain to your country's own engine. That engine applies whatever the law provides before any rate: an annual allowance, a discount for holding the asset long enough, an inclusion rate, an exemption for your home or a deemed cost. Where the rate depends on your other income, the gain is priced on top of that income with the same brackets the take-home pay calculator uses, so a gain that pushes you into a higher band is charged the higher rate on exactly the part that crosses it.
gainsale price − purchase price − costs
taxrates applied to (gain − reliefs), stacked on other income where the law says so
- costs
- fees, commissions, stamp duty or transfer tax and improvements
- reliefs
- the allowances, discounts and exemptions your country gives
What this does not include
- Losses brought forward from earlier years, and other gains or losses in the same year.
- State, provincial capital or municipal taxes on a sale, except Canada's provincial income tax.
- Partial reliefs for a home that was let or used for business part of the time.
- Indexation, grandfathered costs and valuation dates for assets bought long ago.
- Tax-free accounts and the special rules for funds, options and cryptoassets.
How this calculator works
How capital gains are taxed: rates, allowances and holding periods. Why the same gain is taxed at a flat rate in one country, at your income tax rate in another and not at all in a third, with worked examples.
Data sources
| Dataset | Authority | Effective | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States: federal capital gains tax, tax year 2026 | IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 (2026 inflation adjustments) | Within its effective period | |
| United Kingdom: Capital Gains Tax for individuals, 2026/27 | GOV.UK | Within its effective period | |
| Germany: Abgeltungsteuer and private sales of property, 2026 | § 32d EStG | Within its effective period | |
| Canada: tax on capital gains, 2026 | CRA | Within its effective period | |
| Australia: capital gains tax for resident individuals, 2026-27 | ATO | Within its effective period | |
| Ireland: capital gains tax, disposals from 7 October 2026 | Revenue | Within its effective period | |
| Netherlands: box 3 in the year of a sale, 2026 | Belastingdienst | Within its effective period | |
| New Zealand: the bright-line test for residential property, 2026-27 | Inland Revenue IR1229 | Within its effective period | |
| Sweden: tax on capital gains, income year 2026 | Skatteverket | Within its effective period | |
| India: capital gains tax, tax year 2026-27 | Union Budget 2026-27 | Within its effective period | |
| Sri Lanka: capital gains tax for individuals, from 3 June 2026 | IRD Sri Lanka | Within its effective period | |
| Finland: luovutusvoitto, capital gains of individuals, 2026 | Vero | Within its effective period | |
| Japan: separate taxation of gains on shares and real estate, 2026 | NTA Tax Answer No.1463 | Within its effective period | |
| France: plus-values on securities and on property, 2026 | Service-Public F21618 | Within its effective period | |
| Spain: ganancias patrimoniales in the base del ahorro, 2026 | AEAT | Within its effective period | |
| US federal income tax and FICA, tax year 2026 | IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 (2026 inflation adjustments) | Within its effective period | |
| UK income tax (rUK and Scotland), Class 1 National Insurance and student loans, 2026/27 | GOV.UK | Within its effective period | |
| Germany: Lohnsteuer (BMF Programmablaufplan 2026), Solidaritätszuschlag, Kirchensteuer and social insurance 2026 | BMF | Within its effective period | |
| Canada: federal and provincial payroll deductions, CPP, CPP2 and EI, 2026 | CRA | Within its effective period | |
| Australia: individual income tax, Medicare levy, LITO, HELP and superannuation, 2026-27 | ATO | Within its effective period | |
| Ireland: income tax, USC and PRSI Class A, 2026 | Revenue | Within its effective period | |
| Netherlands: box 1 wage tax, national insurance and tax credits, 2026 | Belastingdienst | Within its effective period | |
| New Zealand: PAYE, ACC earners' levy, KiwiSaver and student loan, 2026-27 | Inland Revenue | Within its effective period | |
| Sweden: municipal and state income tax, grundavdrag and jobbskatteavdrag, 2026 | Skatteverket | Within its effective period | |
| India: income tax under the new and old regimes, EPF and professional tax, FY 2026-27 | Income Tax Department | Within its effective period | |
| Sri Lanka: APIT (PAYE) and EPF, year of assessment 2026/27 | Inland Revenue Department | Within its effective period | |
| Finland: state and municipal income tax, contributions and the work income credit, 2026 | Laki vuoden 2026 tuloveroasteikosta 1140/2025 | Within its effective period | |
| Japan: income tax, the reconstruction surtax, inhabitant tax and social insurance, 2026 | National Tax Agency | Within its effective period | |
| France: cotisations salariales, CSG and CRDS, and the 2026 income tax barème | Service-Public | Within its effective period | |
| Spain: IRPF state and autonomous scales, social security and the 2026 withholding algorithm | AEAT | Within its effective period |
Every document each dataset was read from, its notes and how the figures were checked are listed in the guide's data sources.
Figures are estimates derived from published rates and rules, current at the review date shown at the top of this page and taken from the sources listed under Data sources on this page. Rates, fees and thresholds change; always confirm current values with the official source before relying on a result.