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Accurately calculate personal income tax and after-tax income for freelance work. Ideal for design, consulting, and other independent contractor scenarios.
Mainland China resident ordinary service-income withholding: per receipt or monthly total for a continuing project, CNY 800 expense deduction up to CNY 4,000, otherwise 20%, with 20%/30%/40% withholding brackets. Not nonresident taxation or final annual tax.
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Overview
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This calculator estimates mainland China resident withholding on ordinary personal-services remuneration in Chinese yuan (CNY). It handles one payment or a continuing same-project total for one month, and can calculate from gross income or approximately reverse from a take-home target.
Let G be gross remuneration and B the amount after the expense deduction:
G ≤ CNY 4,000: B = max(G − CNY 800, 0)
G > CNY 4,000: B = G × 80%
Withholding = B × rate − quick deduction
Estimated take-home = G − withholding
The rate is 20% with a CNY 0 quick deduction when B is up to CNY 20,000; 30% with CNY 2,000 above CNY 20,000 through CNY 50,000; and 40% with CNY 7,000 above CNY 50,000. These bands use B, not gross income. The quick deduction is part of the bracket formula, not an expense deduction.
Guide
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Use “Tax-inclusive (Pre-tax amount)” for known gross income, or “Tax-exclusive (After-tax amount - Reverse calculation)” for a net target. Here “tax-inclusive” means before this personal income tax withholding.
Change the amount or direction to recalculate. Results show take-home, gross income, taxable income, withholding, and rate with quick deduction. The take-home figure can be copied.
At CNY 5,000 gross, B is CNY 4,000, withholding is CNY 800, and estimated take-home is CNY 4,200. A CNY 10,000 net target reverses to about CNY 11,904.75 gross, CNY 9,523.80 taxable, and CNY 1,904.75 withheld. Reverse values are approximate and displayed to cents.
Q&A
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Gross remuneration selects the expense deduction: CNY 800 at or below CNY 4,000, otherwise 20%. Rate bands are then selected using the taxable amount.
No. They are taxable-income thresholds. Above CNY 4,000 gross, taxable income is 80% of gross, so the thresholds correspond to CNY 25,000 and CNY 62,500 gross.
A one-off receipt is one payment; income from continuous services on the same project is counted over a month as one payment. Use that month's project total, not each transfer separately.
Notes
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This estimates mainland China resident ordinary personal-services withholding in CNY. It does not calculate US federal, state, or local freelance tax; nonresident tax; an individual's final annual bill; or the correct tax category for a contract.
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