tax-tables — 2026 income tax, sales tax, VAT and mortgage-rate data

Machine-readable tax tables behind the calculators at paysums.com, republished here for developers, analysts and journalists.

Canonical page, file descriptions and update log: https://paysums.com/open-data/

What's in data/

File	Contents
us-federal-income-tax-brackets-2026.csv	Federal brackets by filing status (IRS inflation adjustments)
us-federal-2026.json	Brackets, standard deduction, FICA rates/wage base, 401(k)/HSA limits
us-state-income-tax-2026.csv	All 50 states + DC: type, top rate, bracket count, standard deduction, exemption, as-of year, local-tax flag, source
us-states-2026.json	Full state tables: brackets, deductions, credits, local taxes, payroll programs
us-sales-tax-by-state-2026.csv	Statutory state rate, population-weighted average local rate (our computation, see below), combined rate, official lookup URL, source table used
us-local-sales-tax-averages-2026.json	Average local rate per state with the method note and the exact official file used for each state
us-sales-tax-cities-2026.csv	Combined rate in 40 major cities
vat-gst-rates-2026.csv	Standard and reduced VAT/GST rates, 39 countries
mortgage-rates-weekly.csv	Weekly 30- and 15-year fixed averages (Freddie Mac PMMS), last 104 weeks
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brackets are arrays of [upper_bound, rate], null = top band. Every file carries its official source and as-of year.

Average local sales tax rates

Thirty-eight states let counties, cities or districts add their own sales tax. The avg_local_rate column is computed by us, not copied: every incorporated city gets the local rate its state revenue department publishes for it, the unincorporated remainder of each county gets the county rate, and rates are weighted by the Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 sub-county population estimates (SUB-EST2024). Rate tables are the states' own files (Streamlined Sales Tax rate files, comptroller/DOR downloads, county rate charts) — named per state in the JSON file. Small special districts that the rate tables cannot place geographically are omitted except where the state's source line says otherwise. Recomputed quarterly.

How it stays current

A weekly automated check reads the official sources (IRS, SSA, state revenue departments, HMRC, CRA, ATO, incometax.gov.in, BMF, URSSAF/DGFiP) and the files are regenerated and pushed here whenever a figure changes. Mortgage rates refresh every Thursday.

Licence and provenance

Our compilation is released under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: paysums.com, 2026 tax tables, https://paysums.com/open-data/.

The figures themselves are government publications: US federal and state tax tables and statutes are public domain; UK figures are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3; EU Commission VAT tables are CC BY 4.0; Canadian, Australian, Indian, German and French figures are statutory rates and thresholds. No restriction of ours applies to them.

mortgage-rates-weekly.csv reproduces Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey averages, which Freddie Mac makes available "with proper attribution" — credit Source: Freddie Mac when you reuse it; it is not part of the CC BY grant.

Statutory tables, not tax advice.