Money Cockpit
Australia · FY 2026–27

Money Cockpit

Enter what lands in your account each week. See the tax to park, where every dollar goes, what's left to save — and how fast your debts clear.

Left over each week

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Money in
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Tax to set aside
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Home + Super
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Left to use
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Spent + committed
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Left over / year
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Where your week goes

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Left over$0

The rest of your picture

Tap a tile to open that part of the cockpit.

Where you're headed

Your money position projected forward — assets and savings building up, debts paying down — if your current numbers simply keep going.

Income, tax & super

The two things that come off the top before anything else — tax, then super.

Your jobs & income

For each job pick weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and whether it’s gross (you set aside tax) or net (tax already taken).

1 · Tax to set aside
Registered for GSTABN turnover over $75,000 must register. Adds about 1/11 of your gross to the set-aside.
HECS / HELP debtAdds the compulsory repayment so tax time doesn’t bite.
2 · Super to set aside
Super I set aside
As a sole trader you fund your own super. Claim it as a tax deduction and it counts toward the $32,500 concessional cap. If you also have a PAYG job, your employer’s super uses up part of that same cap.

Net worth

Everything you own, minus everything you owe — the one number that shows if you’re going forwards.

Your bank accounts — where your money sits

One line per account — give each a job (holiday, fun, emergencies) and key in the balance. It mirrors your real accounts; update it whenever you like.

What you own — other assets
What you owe — liabilities

Where it goes

Everything that comes out of your pay — the bills you spend on AND the investing and savings you put away. Enter each at whatever cadence it actually comes out.

Home
Rent or mortgage
Whatever you pay to live there — rent, or your home loan repayment.
Overheads & bills
Invest & save

Your regular investment contributions — add one line per platform or account.

Other savings

Emergency fund, holiday, anything else — one line per pot, named however you like.

Savings goals — sinking funds

Emergency fund, holiday, car rego, gifts… set a target and a date, and it works out what to put aside each week.

The budget check

A common rule of thumb: about half your take-home pay on needs, a third on wants, a fifth to savings and debt. This uses the category you picked for each bill.

Credit cards & loans

Each debt's payoff time and total interest are worked out from the balance, rate and what you pay.

Debt Balance Rate % p.a. Payment Paid off in Interest cost
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Debt by type

How your total debt splits across mortgage, investment loans and everything else. Set each debt’s type in the table above.

Total debt$0

These figures assume you keep paying the same dollar amount every time. If you only ever pay a card’s “minimum payment”, that shrinks as the balance falls and payoff takes far longer — pick an amount and stick to it. General information only, not personal advice.

Snowball payoff plan

Keep paying every card its usual amount. The moment one clears, its payment rolls into the next — so each debt falls faster than the one before. Set a start date to see the exact payoff date for each.

Before throwing every spare dollar here, keep a small cash buffer (even $1,000–$2,000) — one car repair without a buffer usually means new card debt.

Snowball = smallest balance first (quick wins). Avalanche = highest interest rate first (least interest paid). Custom = the order in the table above — use the arrows on each row to reorder.

Compare scenarios

See what different extra-payment amounts would do to your debt-free date, side by side.

Bank’s wayno extra payments
Your plan
Try an amount

This financial year, week by week

Log what actually happened — the money that landed and what you spent (everything that left your account, apart from tax you set aside). Every entry saves automatically, building up your whole year (1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2027). Weeks run from 1 July, so they may not line up exactly with your payday — near enough is fine. Tap a month to open it.

Download a CSV statement from your bank and load it here — the file is read on this device and never leaves your browser. It adds up your money out for each period and fills the Spent column. Rows that look like transfers between your own accounts are left out (they are not spending) - double-check the total looks right.

Australian calculators

The money questions every Australian household hits: what is my offset really doing, should I pay down my HECS before June, is skipping health cover costing me more than it saves, and does a novated lease actually stack up?

Mortgage offset simulator

Your lender works out interest on your loan balance every day — minus whatever is sitting in your offset account. Your repayment doesn’t change, so every dollar of interest you don’t pay goes to the principal instead. That’s why an offset quietly shortens the whole loan.

Offset vs. redrawThe maths of an offset account and a redraw facility are identical — both reduce the balance your daily interest is worked out on. The difference is what happens when you take the money out. Cash in an offset is your own savings; withdrawing it has no tax consequences. Taking money out of redraw is legally new borrowing — if the property later becomes an investment, interest on that redrawn amount may not be deductible, because deductibility follows what the redrawn money was spent on. If there’s any chance you’ll rent this home out one day, that difference matters — ask your accountant.

HECS / HELP indexation

HECS doesn’t charge interest — instead the whole balance is indexed once a year on 1 June, at the lower of CPI or WPI. A voluntary repayment that reaches the ATO before 1 June shrinks the balance first, so that part is never indexed. (Compulsory repayments withheld from your pay don’t help here — they aren’t credited until your tax return is processed, after 1 June.)

Estimate only — the real rate is announced each year (lower of CPI or WPI).

Before you pay the ATOVoluntary HECS repayments are non-refundable — once the money reaches the ATO you cannot get it back, even in an emergency. Make sure you have an adequate emergency fund and no higher-interest debt first: HECS indexation is usually far cheaper than a credit card or personal loan. Not personal financial advice.

Medicare levy surcharge check

Earn above the threshold with no private hospital cover and the ATO adds an extra levy — on your whole income, not just the part over the line. Cross the threshold by one dollar and the full surcharge applies. This check uses the income you’ve already entered above.

Blank = your income from above. Family: enter your combined income.

What counts as MLS incomeThe ATO uses your income for MLS purposes: taxable income plus reportable fringe benefits, reportable super contributions and net investment losses — so it can be higher than the taxable income shown here. Only hospital cover (not extras-only) avoids the surcharge. Thresholds verified 11 Aug 2026 for FY 2026–27. Not personal financial advice.

Novated lease estimator

A novated lease pays for the car and its running costs out of your salary — partly before tax. Whether that beats buying outright depends almost entirely on the lease company’s interest rate and fees, so this estimator makes you enter them. Both paths end with you owning the car, so it compares total money out.

Ask the provider for the effective rate — it’s often 8–12% and it decides everything.

Fuel or charging, rego, insurance, servicing, tyres.

Battery EVs under the luxury-car-tax fuel-efficient threshold — exemption runs to 31 Mar 2027, then phases down. Plug-in hybrids lost it 1 Apr 2025.

Estimate onlyBuilt on the standard novated structure: GST claimed on the purchase (capped at the car limit), ATO minimum residual for the term, and any FBT offset with post-tax contributions (a fully pre-tax package for an exempt EV). Real quotes vary with the provider’s rate, fees and insurance bundling — get two or three quotes and compare their total cost, not the weekly figure. Doesn’t model luxury car tax or lease-end refinancing. An exempt EV’s benefit is still reportable and can push up your income for the Medicare levy surcharge above. Not personal financial or tax advice.

Work-related expenses

Track what you spend for work across the year, with a photo of each receipt. It uses the income you entered to estimate what those deductions are actually worth to you.

Keep your original receiptsPhotos you add here are stored on this device only — they are never sent anywhere. That also means they are not a backup: clearing your browser, losing your phone or switching devices will lose them. The ATO expects you to keep records for five years, so keep the originals somewhere permanent and use Save receipts to a file below to pull copies out regularly. Claim only the work-related portion — and note the ATO has set-rate methods (cents per km for the car, a fixed hourly rate for home office) that can beat keeping every receipt; ask your accountant which suits you.