CalcHub.uk Changelog
A public record of every meaningful change to CalcHub.uk: rate updates, new content, schema improvements, methodology revisions and product launches. We don't silently edit numbers — corrections are always dated and disclosed.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 230 long-tail Q&A
Continued building out the AEO answer library, exceeding the 200-answer target. Latest additions cover more profession take-home, specialised tax scenarios, fiscal-event calculations and policy explainers.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 210 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 13 answers covering salary take-home £80k/£150k/£200k, the 60% tax trap explained, pension flexi-access drawdown mechanics, mortgage affordability for self-employed, tax on pension lump sums + LSDBA, second property tax lifecycle, £300k mortgage repayment table, mortgage purchase fees breakdown, Cash ISA vs fixed savings comparison, UK tax allowance freeze timetable, how to verify correct tax paid, UK Civil Service Alpha pension scheme.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 197 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 15 answers covering salary take-home for £35k/£40k/£60k/£75k, HMRC mileage rates 45p/25p, Airbnb host tax (FHL ending), Uber driver tax, eBay/Vinted tax + platform reporting, NHS doctor take-home (FY1-Consultant), police officer salary, redundancy + pension sacrifice strategy, UK pension tax relief mechanics, claiming higher-rate pension relief, Plan 2 vs Plan 5 student loan comparison.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 182 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 13 answers covering UK tax bill calculation step-by-step, SDLT calculation worked examples, salary vs dividends for directors, State Pension adequacy vs retirement standards, mortgage overpay vs pension contribution, IHT property trust planning, tax-free savings stacking, pension recycling rule, SDLT 2024-2025 changes, State Pension deferral economics, umbrella vs limited contracting, Bed-and-ISA mechanics, weekly vs monthly payroll, VAT FRS economics.
- Schema / Structured data
Speakable schema extended to all hub pages
Added SpeakableSpecification to FAQPage schema on all 8 category hubs and all 13 regional hubs, enabling voice-assistant / AI-Overviews extraction from hub-level FAQ content.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 169 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 15 answers covering BTL CGT, Statutory Residence Test, deposit-vs-rate stepdown, bunched-bonus PAYE, end-of-year ISA deadline, Pension Credit eligibility, Gift Aid mechanics, Benefit-in-Kind overview, UK tax year history, HMRC Direct Debit setup, what counts as taxable income, remortgage fees, life insurance in trust, salary-to-hourly conversion, rent vs buy break-even.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 154 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 15 answers covering net vs gross income, compound interest mechanics, APR vs AER, UK cigarette/alcohol/fuel duty, emergency tax codes, UK payslip line-by-line, PCP vs HP car finance, mortgage overpay vs ISA strategy, tax code letters, Self Assessment payments on account, redundancy pay tax £30k threshold, self-employed record-keeping + MTD, Business Relief for IHT (with 2026 £1m cap).
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 139 long-tail Q&A
Added another batch of 15 answers covering budgeting (50/30/20 rule), mortgage overpayments, emergency fund sizing, credit score and mortgages, allowable sole-trader expenses, IHT 7-year rule taper, VAT Flat Rate Scheme, foreign income / FIG regime (April 2025 reform), ISA vs pension tax-efficiency, CGT residential property definition, HMRC investigation windows, childcare vouchers (closed scheme), UK funeral costs, side-hustle tax with Trading Allowance.
- Content
Answer corpus expanded to 124 long-tail Q&A
Added another 23 answers covering mortgage rate mechanics, BoE rate path, Help to Buy Equity Loan, MTD for Income Tax (April 2026), capital allowances, VAT quarterly returns, second-job tax, post-75 pension tax, spouse IHT exemption, VAT registration, top slicing relief and cash basis accounting. Plus city-level Council Tax Liverpool and Bristol.
- Schema / Structured data
Knowledge Graph entity links
Added Organization.sameAs (Wikipedia) and mentions[] arrays linking to Wikipedia/Wikidata entries for HMRC, Revenue Scotland, Welsh Revenue Authority, DWP, Bank of England, ONS and Ofgem — strengthening entity SEO signals.
- Schema / Structured data
Place/City schema on all 13 regional hubs
Extended Place schema coverage to Liverpool, Glasgow, Bristol, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Sheffield in addition to the original 7 hubs. All 13 use containedInPlace hierarchy up to United Kingdom.
- Content
LastUpdated coverage to 41 content pages
Rolled out the visible LastUpdated component to remaining new pillar guides (IR35, Payslip, Statutory Pay, Student Loans), new comparisons (Fixed vs Variable, LISA vs HTB) and new life events (Divorce, Freelancing, Inheriting, Moving House, Starting a Business).
- Content
Reached 100+ AEO answer pages
Added the final batch of long-tail Q&A answers (NLW vs Real Living Wage, bonus tax, Cycle to Work, Private Residence Relief, HMRC refund timing, Rent a Room, Trading Allowance, pension IHT 2027, ISA transfers, PIP vs Pension Credit, Tax-Free Childcare, free childcare hours) — passing the 100-answer milestone.
- Schema / Structured data
Added Dataset distribution with JSON download
Published a machine-readable tax-rates-2025-26.json containing all UK 2025/26 rates. Linked from the Dataset schema on /uk-tax-rates/2025-26/ for Google Dataset Search ranking.
- Content
LastUpdated component rolled out
Added the visible "Last updated / Reviewed" component with a link to /methodology/ across all 14 pillar guides, 6 life-events pages, 7 comparison pages and all calculator pages — 27+ content pages with explicit content-freshness signals.
- Schema / Structured data
HowTo schemas on 9 process guides
Added HowTo structured data to: First-Time Buyer (10 steps), buying-your-first-home life-event (13 steps), Marriage Allowance (5), Self-Employed (6), ISA opening (5), Capital Gains Tax (6), Inheritance Tax (6), Pension setup (7), Tax Codes (6).
- Schema / Structured data
Place/AdministrativeArea schema on regional hubs
Added Place/AdministrativeArea/City schemas to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds hubs, with containedInPlace hierarchy up to the United Kingdom for entity SEO.
- Trust / E-E-A-T
Footer FCA disclaimer + trust band
"Not regulated financial advice" disclaimer added to footer, with links to /methodology/ and /sources/ and a clear statement of the HMRC ±£1 verification standard. Plus /methodology/ and /sources/ pages added as full YMYL trust pages.
- Schema / Structured data
Organization deep schema
Added knowsAbout (16 entities), publishingPrinciples, correctionsPolicy, verificationFactCheckingPolicy, actionableFeedbackPolicy, contactPoint and other deep Organization fields to the root JSON-LD.
- Product
AI search readiness: llms.txt + llms-full.txt
Published /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt for AI crawlers. Explicit robots.txt allowlist for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, CCBot, cohere-ai.
- Schema / Structured data
QAPage + Speakable on glossary and answers
Every glossary term (32) and every answer page (101) now carries a QAPage schema with SpeakableSpecification for voice/AI Overviews extraction.
- Tax rates
Tax year 2025/26 rate update
Updated all calculators and reference pages with 2025/26 tax-year rates: NLW £12.21, NI employer 15%/£5k threshold, SDLT additional property surcharge to 5% from 31 Oct 2024, LBTT ADS 8% from 5 Dec 2024, Lifetime Allowance abolished, LSA £268,275 introduced. Cross-checked against gov.uk reference calculators within ±£1.
For our quality-assurance process and update cadence policy, see /methodology/. All UK tax figures are cross-checked against the matching gov.uk reference calculator within ±£1.