Tasmania payroll tax calculator
Type in an employer's Tasmanian wages and its Australia-wide wages to see whether payroll tax is due in Tasmania, the size of the deduction and the year's tax across both rate bands.
- By Book Keeping Pros
- Sources checked 15 Oct 2026
Work out the payroll tax
Choose the financial year and enter the wages. The result updates as you type.
For the whole year, in whole dollars
Including the wages paid in Tasmania
General information only. It works out an estimate from the wages you enter and doesn't take your circumstances into account.
Payroll tax for 2026-27
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How it works
Tasmania charges payroll tax once an employer's Australia-wide wages for the year are more than the threshold amount. At or below that amount nothing is due, and a business with no Tasmanian wages owes Tasmania nothing, however large its total.
Rather than a single rate, the Payroll Tax Act 2008 sets two bands. Wages between the threshold amount and the top tax bracket threshold are taxed at the lower rate, and only wages beyond the top tax bracket threshold pay the higher rate, so stepping into the upper band leaves the tax on the lower band as it was.
When some wages are paid in other states, the threshold amount and the top tax bracket threshold both shrink in proportion to the Tasmanian wages divided by the Australia-wide wages. The scaled threshold amount becomes the deduction, and the bands start and stop at the scaled amounts.
Neither the thresholds nor the rates moved between 2025-26 and 2026-27. Each year's values are listed in the table below.
Thresholds and rates
| Setting | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| Threshold amount | $1,250,000 | $1,250,000 |
| Top tax bracket threshold | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 |
| Rate up to the top tax bracket threshold | 4% | 4% |
| Rate above the top tax bracket threshold | 6.1% | 6.1% |
Office of Parliamentary Counsel Tasmania, Payroll Tax Act 2008 (Tas), authorised version as at 1 April 2020 Checked 15 Oct 2026.
What the result assumes
- Wages were paid in Australia throughout the financial year, by an employer that stands alone rather than inside a payroll tax group.
- Both amounts typed in are taxable wages with any exempt wages already removed, and the Australia-wide amount includes the Tasmanian one.
- What it shows is the liability for the whole financial year, not an instalment due during the year.
- Results run to the cent, whereas the State Revenue Office Tasmania's published examples round the year's tax down to a whole dollar, so the two can differ by some cents.
- Working out which payments count as wages, or whether a particular wage belongs to Tasmania or somewhere else, is outside what it does.
Sources
- Payroll Tax Act 2008 (Tas), authorised version as at 1 April 2020
Office of Parliamentary Counsel Tasmania. Authorised version as at 1 April 2020, released 5 May 2020. Checked 15 October 2026.
Sourced from the Tasmanian Legislation website (www.legislation.tas.gov.au), licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.
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Questions about this calculator
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General information