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Notes on UK salary, tax, and wealth.

Short pieces on UK tax, take-home pay, and wealth planning.

Featured Tax mechanics

The £100k trap: why a pay rise can cost you money

How the personal allowance taper creates a 60% effective marginal rate, and the legal ways to step around it.

Salaryon Editorial

10 April 2026 4 min read

Tax mechanics 7 April 2026

Contractor or employee in 2026: how the UK tax differs

Same headline rate, different take-home. A side-by-side of how the maths runs through PAYE vs a limited company in 2026/27.

Salaryon Editorial

5 min read
Reference 2 April 2026

Every UK salary threshold that matters in 2026/27

From the £12,570 personal allowance to the £125,140 additional-rate cliff, and all the expensive edges between them.

Salaryon Editorial

5 min read

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