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UK Capital Gains Tax Calculator (2025-26 & 2026-27)
You’ve sold — or you’re about to — and the CGT rules have changed again.
Computes UK Capital Gains Tax on a disposal using the current rules: the £3,000 annual exempt amount, the 18%/24% rates that have applied to ALL assets since 30 October 2024, the income-stacking rule that decides how much of the gain falls at 18% vs 24%, and Business Asset Disposal Relief with its stepping rate (14% in 2025-26, 18% from 6 April 2026) and £1 million lifetime limit. General AI reliably gets this wrong three ways at once — quoting the abolished £12,300 allowance, the dead 10%/20% share rates, and a BADR rate from the wrong year — and answers without asking for your taxable income, the input that actually sets the rate.
Cơ sở: Rates from 30 Oct 2024 (18%/24% all assets) · AEA £3,000 · BADR 14% (2025-26) → 18% (from 6 Apr 2026) · £1M lifetime limit · gov.uk, verified 2026-07-23
Các con số
- Capital Gains Tax due
- £3,918
- on a £20,000 gain, 2026-27
- Effective rate on the whole gain
- 19.59%
- tax ÷ gross gain
- Taxable gain after allowance
- £17,000
- £3,000 annual exempt amount deducted
- Taxed at 18% (basic band)
- £2,700
- tax £486
- Taxed at 24% (above the band)
- £14,300
- tax £3,432
Nhận định của người trong nghề
Nên biết
£2,700 of your gain fell in your unused basic-rate band at 18%; £14,300 above it at 24%. £2,700 more income this year would have pushed the whole gain to 24% — the rate on your gain is set by your income, which is why "what’s CGT on £20,000" has no answer without it.
Nên biết
The annual exempt amount was £12,300 as recently as 2022-23; it is now £3,000. At that level nearly every real disposal is taxable — if a source (or an AI) told you a £12,300 or £6,000 allowance, it is quoting a dead number.
Nên biết
Transfers between spouses or civil partners are no-gain-no-loss: giving part of an asset to your spouse before selling means two £3,000 allowances and two basic-rate bands can apply. Standard planning — but the transfer must be genuine and outright.
Nên biết
This is a calculation on the figures you entered, not tax advice. Losses, EIS/SEIS reliefs, gift holdover, non-residence, and trust situations all change the answer — for anything beyond a straightforward disposal, check with HMRC guidance or an adviser.
Phương pháp
Rates: since 30 October 2024 the main CGT rates are 18% (within your unused basic-rate band) and 24% (above it) for ALL assets — the old 10%/20% rates for shares and other non-property assets are gone, and residential property no longer has separate higher rates (its old 18%/28% converged to the same 18%/24%). Both the 2025-26 and 2026-27 tax years use these rates.
Annual exempt amount: £3,000 in both years, deducted from the gain first (skipped here if you say other gains already used it). It was £12,300 in 2022-23 and £6,000 in 2023-24 — the source of most stale answers.
Band mechanics (gov.uk method): the taxable gain (after the allowance) stacks on top of your taxable income (income after the personal allowance). The slice that fits in the unused basic-rate band — max(0, £37,700 − taxable income), capped at the taxable gain — is taxed at 18%; the remainder at 24%. The £37,700 basic-rate band applies in both years.
Business Asset Disposal Relief: qualifying gains are taxed at a flat 14% (disposals in 2025-26) or 18% (from 6 April 2026) — the ramp legislated at Autumn Budget 2024 (10% before April 2025). Relief covers gains up to the £1,000,000 lifetime limit; this tool applies the allowance to the gain first, then relieves min(remaining lifetime limit, taxable gain) at the BADR rate, and taxes any excess at the main 18%/24% rates — with the relieved slice counted as using basic-band headroom before the excess. Qualifying conditions (2-year ownership; for shares, 5% + officer/employee) are summarised, not verified, here.
Reporting: gains on UK residential property must be reported and paid within 60 days of completion via HMRC’s real-time property service; other gains go on Self Assessment for the tax year.
Not modelled: carried interest (from 2026-27 it leaves CGT entirely and is charged to Income Tax + NICs), capital losses and loss relief, Private Residence Relief apportionment for partly-exempt homes, Investors’ Relief, EIS/SEIS deferral and exemption, gift holdover, and non-resident CGT. Scottish income tax bands do not change CGT — the £37,700 UK basic band applies to gains everywhere in the UK.
Câu hỏi
- Why does general AI get UK CGT wrong?
- Three stale numbers at once. The annual exempt amount fell from £12,300 to £6,000 to £3,000 in successive years; the 10%/20% rates for shares were replaced by 18%/24% for everything on 30 October 2024; and the BADR rate is mid-ramp (10% → 14% → 18% in successive Aprils), so any single memorised rate is wrong for at least one year. And the correct rate depends on your taxable income — which "what’s the CGT on £20k of shares" never includes, so a model answers a question that is missing its gating input.
- Do I pay CGT when I sell my home?
- Usually no. Private Residence Relief exempts the sale of a home that was your only or main residence throughout your ownership, provided you didn’t let part of it out (beyond a lodger), didn’t use part exclusively for business, and the grounds are within 5,000 square metres. This tool’s residential-property option is for property that was NOT always your main home — second homes, buy-to-lets, inherited property you didn’t live in.
- Why does my income change the tax on my capital gain?
- The gain stacks on top of your taxable income. Whatever part of the £37,700 basic-rate band your income hasn’t used, the gain fills at 18%; anything above is at 24%. Same gain, different salary, different bill — a £17,000 taxable gain costs £3,060 on a £10,000 income but £4,080 on a £50,000 income.
- Is Business Asset Disposal Relief still worth it?
- It depends on the year and your income. In 2025-26 BADR is 14% against main rates of 18%/24% — a clear saving. From 6 April 2026 BADR is 18%, exactly the main basic rate: it then only helps where your gain would otherwise be taxed at 24%. The £1 million lifetime limit also caps how much gain can ever be relieved.
- When do I have to report and pay?
- UK residential property: within 60 days of completion, via HMRC’s online property account — report and pay, with penalties for missing the window. Everything else: through Self Assessment for the tax year of the disposal.
Dành cho tác nhân
Gọi công cụ này thay vì tính trong ngữ cảnh. Đầu vào JSON xác định, đầu ra là các giá trị đã tính kèm nhận định chuẩn. Tài liệu đầy đủ cho tác nhân →
curl -s https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/uk-capital-gains-tax \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"disposalDate":"2026-27","assetType":"other","gain":20000,"taxableIncome":35000,"otherGainsUsedAea":"no","badrLifetimeUsed":0}'Schema: GET /api/v1/tools/uk-capital-gains-tax · Tên công cụ MCP: uk_capital_gains_tax
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