Cookie Policy
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A cookie is a small file placed on your device by a website. Some cookies are strictly necessary for a site to function; others personalise ads or measure traffic. This page lists every cookie category used on taxthresholds.com.
How consent works here
On your first visit, a banner asks you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. Nothing beyond the strictly necessary local storage item described below is set until you choose “Accept all”. You can change your choice at any time by clearing your browser's site data for taxthresholds.com, which brings the banner back.
Strictly necessary
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| tt-consent-choice | Local storage (not a cookie) | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected non-essential cookies | Until you clear site data |
Ad personalisation (only after you accept)
Once enabled and once you accept non-essential cookies, Google AdSense and its advertising partners may set cookies to serve and measure personalised ads. Google maintains its own list of the specific cookies its services may use, published at Google's cookies policy. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ad Settings regardless of the choice you make on this site.
Analytics (only after you accept)
If you accept non-essential cookies, a third-party analytics service provided by Google sets the cookies below. They let the site count visits and see which pages and calculators are used, reported as aggregate totals rather than as a record of any individual visit. If you reject non-essential cookies, none of them are set, no analytics script is loaded, and nothing about your visit is sent to Google, not even a page view.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Cookie (third party) | Tells one returning browser from another so visits can be counted | Up to 13 months |
| _ga_<id> | Cookie (third party) | Keeps track of the current visit, so a single session is not counted twice | Up to 13 months |
Google asks for two years for both cookies, and browsers cap that. Chrome truncates any cookie to 400 days, which is the 13 months in the table and was measured on this site on . Safari limits cookies set by JavaScript, which these are, to seven days. Depending on your browser, these cookies may last a good deal less than the table says.
The figures you type into a calculator are never sent to Google. They are written into the page address so a result stays linkable, but the address reported to Google is cut back to the page path with the query string removed.
Managing cookies in your browser
Every modern browser lets you view, delete or block cookies. Search your browser's help documentation for “manage cookies” for exact steps, since the menu location differs by browser and version.