australia_hecs_help_repayment
Australia HECS-HELP Repayment & Indexation (2025-26 reform)
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Your compulsory HELP repayment under the new marginal system, what indexation adds each 1 June, and how the 20% cut and old rules compare. Computes your compulsory HECS-HELP repayment under Australia’s reformed 2025-26 system — a marginal calculation (nil to $67,000, then 15% and 17% slices, then a flat 10% of total income at the top) that replaced the old flat-percentage-of-entire-income scale. Three reforms landed within a year (the marginal flip, indexation recut to the lower of CPI/WPI backdated to 2023, and a one-off 20% balance cut in July 2025), so general AI still computes the old system on the old thresholds. The tool also names the input people get wrong: ATO “repayment income” is not your salary — reportable super contributions and net investment losses are added back.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| incomeYear | string | no | Income year Thresholds are indexed to average weekly earnings each year, so the year changes the answer. |
| repaymentIncome | number | no | ATO repayment income ($) NOT your salary. ATO “repayment income” = taxable income (excluding assessable FHSS released amounts) + reportable fringe benefits + total net investment loss (including net rental losses) + reportable super contributions + exempt foreign employment income. Salary-sacrificed super and negative-gearing losses are added back — a $95k salary with $10k reportable super contributions is $105k repayment income. |
| balance | number | no | HELP debt balance today ($) Your current HELP balance (myGov → ATO → loan accounts). Used for the indexation and payoff-horizon estimates. The default is the national average debt. |
| hadDebtJun2025 | string | no | Did you have a HELP balance on 1 June 2025? Balances as at 1 June 2025 received a one-off 20% cut (passed July 2025), applied automatically before that year’s indexation. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"incomeYear": {
"description": "Income year Thresholds are indexed to average weekly earnings each year, so the year changes the answer.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"2025-26",
"2026-27"
],
"default": "2026-27"
},
"repaymentIncome": {
"description": "ATO repayment income ($) NOT your salary. ATO “repayment income” = taxable income (excluding assessable FHSS released amounts) + reportable fringe benefits + total net investment loss (including net rental losses) + reportable super contributions + exempt foreign employment income. Salary-sacrificed super and negative-gearing losses are added back — a $95k salary with $10k reportable super contributions is $105k repayment income.",
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"default": 85000
},
"balance": {
"description": "HELP debt balance today ($) Your current HELP balance (myGov → ATO → loan accounts). Used for the indexation and payoff-horizon estimates. The default is the national average debt.",
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"default": 27600
},
"hadDebtJun2025": {
"description": "Did you have a HELP balance on 1 June 2025? Balances as at 1 June 2025 received a one-off 20% cut (passed July 2025), applied automatically before that year’s indexation.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"yes",
"no"
],
"default": "yes"
}
},
"required": [],
"additionalProperties": false
}