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How salary tax slabs work

Tax year 2026-27 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · TaxGuide

A salaried slab is not a flat percentage of your whole salary.

Each row in the First Schedule covers a band of taxable income. Inside that band, tax is a fixed amount plus a percentage of the income above the start of the band. The fixed amount is the tax already produced by the earlier bands.

TaxGuide stores those rows in a versioned rule set. The salary calculator reads the published set for the year you pick. It does not keep a second copy of the rates in the page.

Two checks matter when you read a result:

• The tax year on the result matches the year you selected.
• The source link is the Finance Act or FBR rate card stored with that rule set.

If salary is not the right head of income for your case, these slabs may not be the ones that apply. The estimate is not an assessment.

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