About TaxMate
The law is the configuration.
The code is the engine.
TaxMate was built on a simple premise: tax calculations should be deterministic, auditable, and traceable to legislation — not approximations hidden behind a UI. Every number TaxMate produces can be verified against the Income Tax Act 2007 because that's where the numbers come from.
How we're different
Most tax software hardcodes thresholds and rates. When legislation changes, the code breaks or produces wrong results silently. TaxMate takes a different approach: our corpus of 5,029 legislative provisions is the single source of truth. Tax brackets, rates, thresholds, and rules are loaded from statute at runtime — the code never knows what the numbers are until it reads the law.
This architecture means TaxMate can't hallucinate a tax rate. It can't use a threshold from last year. It can't invent a rule that doesn't exist. Every output is deterministic and citable.
Conservation commitment
$1 from every TaxMate subscription goes to Kākāpō Recovery. There are only around 250 kākāpō left on Earth. They're New Zealand's rarest native birds, and we believe doing good work should also do good for the world.
By the numbers
Provisions indexed
Tests passing
Entity types
Hardcoded thresholds