Disclosure

This page states how the site is funded and how commercial relationships would affect its content. It is deliberately explicit about the current state.

Current status

As of the effective date below, this site carries no advertising, contains no affiliate links, and publishes no sponsored or paid-placement content. Every calculator is free to use and no result is gated behind a sign-up or a purchase. There is no tracking for advertising purposes beyond the anonymous technical logs described in the privacy page.

Links to third parties

Calculator and reference pages link to official IRS and Social Security Administration publications so that every figure can be checked against its source. These links are not commercial: the site receives no payment for them, and they carry rel="nofollow". Government publications are the authority; this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of those agencies.

If funding is added later

The site may eventually be supported by contextual advertising, affiliate referrals to tax-preparation products, or both. Before any such link goes live, this page will be updated to name the relationship, and a clear disclosure will appear adjacent to the link itself, before the click. No commercial partner will be allowed to alter a figure, a threshold, a formula, or the wording of a limitation.

Where a federal release does not publish a number, this site does not estimate it and will not accept payment to do so. A correction is applied to the shared data file and propagates to every affected page; sponsors are not consulted in that process.

Scope of this statement

This disclosure covers Plain Bracket only. It does not apply to external sites reached through outbound links, each of which has its own policies.

Contact

Questions about funding, a correction, or a possible conflict of interest can be sent to the address on the data sources page.

Effective date

15 November 2026. This statement is updated when the facts change, not on a rebuild.