TaxLane Changelog

11 September 2026

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: The Payroll calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too — every TaxLane calculator now has full three-language coverage, including the mode toggle, guided and paste panels, results table, and payslip export.

10 September 2026

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Fixed a grammar bug in the PAYE tax-band explorer's preview line reading "a 18% marginal bracket" instead of "an 18%."
New: The Stamp Duty calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too, matching PAYE, VAT, Presumptive Tax, Direct Assessment, Employer Cost, Withholding Tax, and CIT.
New: The Capital Gains Tax (CGT) calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too, including the digital-asset (crypto) category picker and its per-category disclaimers.
Fixed: Fixed the CIT calculator's small-company threshold table showing untranslated English row labels in Pidgin, Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo — each row now shows the translated label with the original English term alongside it for reference.
Fixed: Fixed Copy/Share/Download PNG/Download PDF/Save to Records falling back to English on the Withholding Tax and Company Income Tax calculators for Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo speakers, matching every other translated calculator.
Fixed: Fixed Hausa's hooked letters (ɗ, ƙ, ɓ) and the Naira sign showing as blank boxes inside form controls (dropdowns, toggles, text fields) on devices without a matching system font — they now render correctly everywhere, not just outside form controls.
New: The Import Duty & Landed Cost calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too — every TaxLane calculator except Payroll now has full three-language coverage.

9 September 2026

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: The Company Income Tax (CIT) calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too, matching PAYE, VAT, Presumptive Tax, Direct Assessment, Employer Cost, and Withholding Tax.
Fixed: The developer API's Official SDKs cards now show a plain "Not yet available" note for each unpublished SDK instead of an install command or GitHub link that didn't actually work for anyone outside the team — check back once we publish to npm, PyPI, and Packagist.
New: Added DutyCalc.ng, an import-duty calculator with an HS code lookup tool, to the /compare alternatives list under a new "Other single-tax calculators" group.
Fixed: Fixed the Filing Calendar's "Get reminders in this browser" toggle showing as ready to use on any desktop or Android Chrome tab — it now correctly only works once you've installed TaxLane as an app.
New: The PAYE calculator now has an always-visible, interactive tax-band explorer slider, so you can see how take-home pay changes as gross salary moves across the tax bands without touching the real calculator or your saved Records (illustrative only — no reliefs applied).
Improved: Restyled the PAYE tax-band explorer slider's handle and marker to align with the band bar it sits above, and added a visible keyboard-focus state.

8 September 2026

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: The developer API's "Try it" console now supports the batch PAYE endpoint (POST /v1/payroll/batch) — build up to 5 employee rows in a form, or paste a JSON array directly, with either mode staying in sync as you switch between them.
New: The Employer Cost of Employment calculator now shows a "Total tax & contribution rate" figure and a 3-segment bar breaking down net take-home, employee PAYE, and employer contributions as a share of total employment cost.
Fixed: Fixed the Employer Cost calculator's two breakdown bars using inconsistent colors for the same entity — employer contributions and employee PAYE now use one color each across both bars, with a small legend added for clarity.
New: The developer API now has an official Python SDK (pip install taxlane), covering all 11 endpoints alongside the existing JavaScript/TypeScript SDK.
New: The developer API now has an official PHP SDK (composer require quineworks/taxlane), covering all 11 endpoints alongside the existing JavaScript/TypeScript and Python SDKs.
New: The Filing Calendar can now remind you in this browser before a deadline, even if you haven't opened the app — turn on "Get reminders in this browser" and nothing is sent anywhere; it only works in the browser you turn it on in.

7 September 2026

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Fixed the pay-period breakdown on the PAYE calculator overflowing the screen on narrow phones — Annual, Monthly, Weekly, and Daily now stack as separate rows instead of squeezing into a table.
New: The Withholding Tax calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too, matching PAYE, VAT, Presumptive Tax, Direct Assessment, and Employer Cost.
New: Added Talent.com and nigeriataxcalculator.com to the /compare alternatives page, bringing the list to twenty-seven Nigerian tax tools.
Fixed: Corrected the developer API's OpenAPI spec, which incorrectly said there were no rate limits — it now documents the real shared limit (50 requests/second, 100 burst) and a 429 response example for every endpoint.

6 September 2026

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Extended the Withholding Tax calculator with three more transaction types — dividends and interest (both 10%) and royalties (5% for individuals, 10% for companies) — alongside the existing professional fees, technical services, rent, and general contracts.
Fixed: Fixed the "Required" and "Default" column headers in the developer API's field tables still overlapping on the narrowest phone screens (320px wide), one breakpoint past the earlier fix.
Improved: The curl and JSON code samples on /developers now have real syntax highlighting — keys, strings, numbers, and booleans in distinct colors — plus a labeled header on each block showing the language and, for responses, the status code.
New: Published an official JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for the developer API — one function per endpoint, no runtime dependencies, works in both Node and the browser. See /developers for install instructions.
New: The PAYE calculator result can now show a weekly and daily breakdown of gross pay, tax, and take-home pay alongside the usual monthly and annual figures — tap "Break down by pay period" under your result to see it.

5 September 2026

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Expanded the free developer API from two calculators to ten — Presumptive Tax, Self-Employed (Direct Assessment), Company Income Tax, Withholding Tax, Employer Cost, Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty, and Import Duty & Landed Cost all joined PAYE and VAT. See /developers for docs and curl examples.
New: Added a sticky sidebar table of contents to the /developers page, so you can jump straight to any of the ten endpoints instead of scrolling through the whole page — it highlights the section you're currently reading and collapses to a scrollable pill row on mobile.
New: Added a live "Try it" panel to every endpoint on /developers — fill in the fields and send a real request straight from the page, no code required, and see the actual JSON response come back.
Fixed: Fixed the "Required" and "Default" column headers in the developer API's field tables overlapping each other on mobile.
New: Published a full OpenAPI 3.1 specification for the developer API at /openapi.json, so it can be imported straight into Postman, Swagger, or any code generator.
Improved: Redesigned the "page not found" screen with a search box and quick links to the PAYE calculator, VAT calculator, Guides, and all calculators, instead of just a link back to the homepage.

4 September 2026

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Added a guide on Nigeria's Office of the Tax Ombud — a free, independent complaints channel for unfair treatment or delay by a tax authority, how to file, and what happens after.
Improved: Added a fade at the right edge of the curl/JSON code samples on the /developers page on mobile, so it's clear there's more to scroll instead of the text just clipping.
New: Added a text-size control to the header (default, large, extra-large), a skip-to-content link for keyboard users, and turned off animations for anyone with reduced-motion set on their device.
Fixed: Fixed the /developers docs page centering its body copy and code samples instead of left-aligning them.
New: Added a copy button to each curl/JSON code sample on the /developers page, so you can grab the exact text without selecting it by hand.
New: The PAYE payslip tax check panel now lets you snap a photo of your payslip instead of typing the tax figure — it reads the number straight off the image and pre-fills the field for you to confirm. No photo is ever stored or sent anywhere; it’s processed on your device and discarded right after.

3 September 2026

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Launched a free developer API — POST /v1/paye and POST /v1/vat, no account or API key needed. See /developers for docs and curl examples.
Fixed: Fixed the Self-Employed (Direct Assessment) calculator’s filing reminder reusing generic PAYE-flavored wording — it now speaks directly to self-employed filers about assessing and filing the tax themselves, in English and Pidgin.
Fixed: Fixed the VAT calculator’s FAQ in Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo, and Pidgin missing two questions the English version already had — whether small businesses have to charge VAT, and whether everything is really taxed at 7.5%. All four languages now show the full seven-question FAQ.
New: The Presumptive Tax calculator now translates into Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo too, matching PAYE and VAT — quick answer, breakdown, FAQ, and filing reminders.
New: Added NOTA and Billing+ to the /compare alternatives page, bringing the list to twenty-five Nigerian tax tools.

2 September 2026

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Added Self-Employed (Direct Assessment) and Import Duty & Landed Cost to the Sources citations page, which were missing.
Fixed: Fixed the Self-Employed (Direct Assessment) calculator’s “see full citations” link pointing at Presumptive Tax’s sources instead of its own.
Fixed: Fixed the Import Duty calculator’s citation link wrongly crediting the Nigeria Tax Act — it now correctly points to Nigeria’s customs and trade regulations.
New: TaxLane is now available in Igbo alongside English, Pidgin, Hausa, and Yorùbá — the language switcher covers the homepage, calculator picker, and the PAYE calculator so far, with more calculators to follow.
New: The VAT calculator now translates into Igbo too, matching the PAYE calculator — single-amount and itemized-invoice entry, results, and FAQ.
New: The VAT calculator now translates into Yorùbá too, matching the PAYE calculator — single-amount and itemized-invoice entry, results, and FAQ.

1 September 2026

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Fixed the Import Duty calculator’s entry-mode toggle stacking into one merged, broken-looking pill on mobile instead of two clean side-by-side options.
New: TaxLane is now available in Yorùbá alongside English, Pidgin, and Hausa — the language switcher covers the homepage, calculator picker, and the PAYE calculator so far, with more calculators to follow.
New: The VAT calculator now translates into Hausa too, matching the PAYE calculator — single-amount and itemized-invoice entry, results, and FAQ.
Improved: Hausa and Yorùbá now show an honest note instead of silently staying in English on calculators that aren’t translated yet, matching Pidgin.

31 August 2026

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Updated the Privacy Policy and Terms pages’ calculator lists to include Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty, and Self-Employed (Direct Assessment), which were missing.
New: Added an Import Duty & Landed Cost calculator — TaxLane’s eleventh — to work out customs duty, surcharge, ETLS, and import VAT on goods brought into Nigeria from your CIF or FOB value, with a full landed-cost total and itemized breakdown.
Fixed: Fixed the Import Duty calculator’s duty-band dropdown looking identical whether it was enabled or disabled.

30 August 2026

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Improved: The PAYE calculator’s budget breakdown, tax-savings finder, and payslip-check panels now translate into Nigerian Pidgin and Hausa too, matching the rest of the calculator.

29 August 2026

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Added a Self-Employed (Direct Assessment) calculator for anyone keeping proper business records — works out tax on your actual turnover minus expenses (and capital allowance, if you claim one) instead of the flat 1% presumptive rate, with a built-in comparison against Presumptive Tax.
Improved: The Direct Assessment calculator’s comparison against Presumptive Tax now translates into Nigerian Pidgin too, matching the rest of the calculator.
Fixed: Fixed the Direct Assessment calculator’s result sentence dropping an arrow glyph on some devices, sometimes leaving a blank box.
Fixed: Fixed the calculator picker leaving Capital Gains Tax and Stamp Duty stranded in an off-center row by themselves.

28 August 2026

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Downloaded PNG and PDF results now carry a QR code linking back to the calculator that made them — handy for a printed page, where a typed web address isn’t clickable.
New: /compare now includes BizEdge alongside the other HR/payroll platforms offering a free Nigeria PAYE calculator.

27 August 2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed: Fixed the Salary Comparison tool showing a down arrow on a favorable take-home-pay increase — the arrow now always points the same way as the actual change.

25 August 2026

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: /compare now lists two more alternatives to weigh us against — Peng Logistics Tax Calculator and SmartLink ERP.

24 August 2026

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: /guides now covers how rental income is taxed for landlords — the PIT bands and deductible-expense rules, plus a worked example — linked from the Withholding Tax calculator.
Fixed: VAT and withholding tax filing-deadline notices now reference Rev360, the NRS e-filing portal that replaced TaxPro Max — the old name had lingered in the copy since the portal's retirement.
Fixed: TaxLane now displays correctly in Hausa — the hooked letters ɗ/ƙ/ɓ/Ƙ used in Hausa PAYE calculator copy no longer show as blank boxes on devices without a matching system font.
Fixed: Home's live PAYE calculator preview no longer repeats the same filing-deadline notice and "find where to file" tool twice on the page — it now shows once, below the preview.
Fixed: Removed a leftover internal code reference that had leaked into the tax knowledge quiz's first question explanation.

23 August 2026

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Improved: The tax knowledge quiz at /quiz now shows a visual progress bar as you answer, plus a check or cross icon on each answered choice — not just a color change — so progress and correctness are both easy to read at a glance.
Fixed: Fixed the quiz's "Try the calculator" link crowding into the "Next question" button on wider screens after an incorrect answer, instead of sitting with clear space between them.
New: TaxLane is now available in Hausa alongside English and Pidgin — the language switcher in the header covers the homepage, calculator picker, and the PAYE calculator (inputs, results, and FAQ) so far, with more calculators to follow.

22 August 2026

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New: Launched a Nigeria tax knowledge quiz at /quiz, now with 25 questions covering PAYE, VAT, Presumptive Tax, CGT, and more — answer one question at a time with immediate feedback, then review any misses and share your score.
New: The salary comparison tool can now download the two-offer comparison as an image or PDF, matching every other TaxLane result — useful for forwarding a comparison to a partner, mentor, or recruiter without sharing a link back to the site.
Fixed: Fixed the salary comparison tool's refine drawer sometimes showing offer fields in a single narrow column on wide desktop screens instead of the intended side-by-side layout.
New: Records now shows a year-by-year net position for digital-asset (crypto/NFT/token) capital gains — gains and losses within a year net against each other automatically, and a net loss carries forward indefinitely to offset future gains.