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Global Tax, TaxCompare, Budget, Invest and Finance Cockpit

Run salary-after-tax calculations for multiple countries, compare locations, and manage your full personal finance workflow in one ecosystem.

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🚀 Our Financial Suite

Income

Multi-Country Tax Hub

Gross-to-net calculator for 8 countries. Includes the latest 2026 tax updates for Germany and international jurisdictions. Know your take-home pay.

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Global Tax Comparison

The ultimate dashboard for expats and nomads. Visually compare tax burdens across borders to find your best destination.

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Smart Budget Planner

The 'Missing Link': Import your net income directly from our tax engine, track expenses, and calculate your global savings rate.

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Investment Simulator

Professional wealth projection. Use Monte Carlo simulations for ETFs and stocks based on historical market performance.

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❓ FAQ

Obolus is modular. TaxApp calculates your net income, Budget plans expenses and savings, InvestApp simulates long-term wealth, and Cockpit brings everything together in one personal dashboard.
Without login, your inputs stay local in your browser. Data is only saved on our servers when you are logged in and actively use cloud actions such as save/load.
The Cockpit is your central dashboard for income, expenses, savings rate, and financial goals. It connects TaxApp, Budget, and Invest in one view.
Yes. Cockpit is account-based. Only logged-in users can securely sync and load their data across devices.
Yes. The calculator uses the currently valid 2026 tax law logic and tax brackets for all supported countries, including Germany.
Currently, we support tax systems for Germany (including 2026 update), Austria, Switzerland, USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland.
TaxCompare allows you to translate a gross salary from one country into the net equivalent of another. This shows you instantly where you keep more purchasing power after taxes.
Integration. You don't need to type in your salary—just import it. Plus, it automatically calculates your free capital for investments.
Instead of guessing a flat 7% return, we simulate thousands of possible market futures. This shows you not just the potential profit, but also the risk.
Start with Cost of Living for the broad affordability question, then move to Rent vs Income for the housing lens, and use TaxCompare for direct cross-country salary translation.
Because a strong net-pay number alone can still lead to a weak real-life outcome once rent, groceries, and health costs are layered on top. That is why the affordability pages always show housing pressure and available-income context.
Yes. On the prioritized salary, cost-of-living, and rent pages you can switch between local median gross benchmarks and your own gross salary input.

Public Finance

Explore Germany's 2026 federal budget

Inspect revenue and spending with interactive drilldowns across plan, chapter, and title levels.

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Tax Simulation

Joint Tax Filing Simulation

Simulation of the fiscal effects of removing joint tax filing (Ehegattensplitting) in German tax law.

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Market Data & Analysis

Price Charts & Analysis

Track price movements of investment classes and explore selected macroeconomic analyses and charts.

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Guided Pages

Start with cost of living and housing

The strongest relocation and affordability entry pages come first. Salary and market comparisons sit below, with a lighter guide list at the bottom.

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Cost of Living

Cost of Living Comparison: Rent, Groceries and Available Income

Compare rent, grocery costs, available income and purchasing power for single-person households across countries.

Housing

Rent vs Income by Country: Housing Burden and Median Income

Compare urban and national rent against local median net income, your net income after deductions and housing burden across countries.

Salary and market comparisons

Salary After Tax Calculator: Same Salary in 8 Countries

Compare the same gross salary after tax across 8 countries: Germany, Switzerland, the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and Austria.

Global Salary Comparison: Median Gross, Net Pay and Rent

Compare local median gross, net pay, rent pressure and purchasing power for international job offers and salary decisions.

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