Free tools

Calculators and checkers built for construction. No sign-up, no catch. If a number surprises you, that's the point.

CIS reclaim: what you're owed

If your company has CIS deducted by customers and pays PAYE, you can offset monthly instead of reclaiming at year-end.

CIS deducted from you per month (£)

Your monthly PAYE / NI / CIS bill (£)

Months since your last reclaim

Reverse charge checker

Should this invoice carry VAT, or the domestic reverse charge?

Is the supply construction services within CIS?

Are both you and the customer VAT registered?

Is the customer CIS registered?

Has the customer confirmed in writing they are an end user or intermediary?

VAT rate on the supply

Retention calculator

How much is tied up, and what it's really costing you.

Contract value (£)

Retention %

Defects period (months)

Your overdraft or borrowing rate (%)

Overhead recovery rate

What every job has to carry before you make a penny of profit.

Annual overheads not charged to jobs (£)

Expected annual turnover (£)

Target net profit %

Direct cost of a job you're pricing (£)

Plant: buy or hire?

A rough answer to a question that's usually decided on the phone with a salesman.

Purchase price (£)

Weekly hire rate for the same kit (£)

Weeks you'd actually use it per year

Years you'd keep it

Foundation Score

Ten yes-or-no questions. Two minutes. Most contractors score 2 to 4 before the Reset.

Take the score

These are estimates for general guidance. Rates, thresholds and rules change; check with your accountant before acting on a number.

Job management partners

The numbers on the Taxtful View are only as good as what comes off site. We're partnered with the three job management systems our construction clients use most, so job costing, timesheets and materials flow into Xero without anyone retyping them.

ServiceM8

For trades and service contractors: jobs, quoting, scheduling and forms on the phone, invoices into Xero. We set it up, connect it, and build the job codes so every cost lands on the right job.

Certified partner · setup, training, Xero integration

SiteTrackPro

Site diaries, labour allocation and plant on site, captured daily by the people doing the work. That's the labour-hours and productivity data the Taxtful View needs, without a timesheet chase.

Partner · implementation and reporting

Workever

Field service and job management for multi-site contractors: scheduling, job sheets, materials and invoicing, synced to Xero. We map it to your job costing so margin by job is live, not reconstructed at month-end.

Partner · setup and Xero mapping

Already on one of these? It shortens onboarding. Not on any? We'll tell you honestly which one fits your trade, or whether a spreadsheet and Xero Projects is enough for now.

Free book

Built on Sand

Why your construction business feels out of control, and the twelve fixes that put it on foundations. By Chris Neuman.

First fix, second fix, forever fixed. The whole Taxtful method in a short book you can read on a Sunday and start on Monday.

Or download it now, no email needed.

Free training: The Three Questions

A 25-minute recorded session. What margin your last job made, what's held in retentions, and your bank balance in eight weeks: how to answer all three from numbers you already have.

Watch the training

The 90-second version. The full training.