Get paid, know what you owe.

Creating your account

GigTax uses a simple email-and-password account to keep your income, expenses, and mileage private and synced across sessions.

1. Open GigTax and tap "Sign Up"

   You'll land here automatically the first time you open the app.

2. Enter your email and choose a password

   Use an email you check regularly — it's how you'll recover your account later.

3. Tap "Create Account"

   You're dropped straight onto your Dashboard. No income logged yet, so everything reads $0.00 — that's expected.

Already have an account? Use "Log In" from the same screen with your email and password.

Your free dashboard

The Dashboard is free forever — no subscription required. It's the one screen that gives you the full tax picture at a glance, built from whatever income, expenses, and mileage you've logged.

Your Numbers

Four running totals, pulled live from your activity:

Tax Breakdown

Below your numbers, GigTax splits your estimated tax bill into its two real components — this is the part most gig-work calculators skip:

• Federal Income Tax — based on 2025 single-filer brackets, after the standard deduction
• Self-Employment Tax — the 15.3% Social Security and Medicare tax that a W-2 employer would normally split with you
• Total Estimated Tax and your Effective Rate — the two combined, as a share of your income

Weekly Set-Aside

A dedicated card converts your annual estimate into a per-week savings target — the number to actually move into a separate account so tax season doesn't wipe you out.

Free vs. Pro

The Dashboard is the hook — it's useful the moment you sign up. Actually logging the income, expenses, and mileage that feed it is a Pro feature.

Tapping Expenses, Mileage, Income, or Export as a free user opens a paywall for that specific feature — showing what you'll unlock, the price, a Restore Purchases link if you've subscribed before, and a Maybe Later button to back out.

Logging expenses

Every deductible cost — gas, repairs, your phone bill, a slice of your insurance — lowers your net income and your tax bill. GigTax lets you scan a receipt or enter one by hand.

Scan a receipt

1. Open the Expenses tab and tap the camera icon

   Choose "Take Photo" or "Choose from Gallery."

2. Frame the receipt and capture it

   GigTax reads the image and pulls out the amount, date, merchant, and a suggested category automatically.

3. Review and adjust

   OCR is a first draft, not a final answer — check the amount and category before saving, and correct anything that looks off.

4. Tap Save

   It's added to your list and reflected in the Dashboard immediately.

Categories

Each expense is filed under one of six categories, which GigTax guesses from the merchant name on a scanned receipt:

Tracking mileage

Miles driven for gig work are deductible at the IRS standard rate — $0.67 per mile for 2025. Log a trip and GigTax shows the resulting deduction before you even save it.

1. Open the Mileage tab

   Enter the number of miles for a trip or a day's driving.

2. Check the live deduction preview

   As you type, GigTax shows exactly what that mileage is worth against your taxes at the current IRS rate.

3. Add a date and note, then save

   It rolls straight into your Dashboard's Miles Driven total and Net Income figure.

Recording income

Log what you actually earned, by platform, so your tax estimate reflects reality rather than a guess.

1. Open the Income tab and tap Add
2. Enter the amount, platform, and date

   Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, or any other source — whatever you drove or delivered for.

3. Save it

   Your Dashboard's Total Income and tax breakdown update instantly.

Exporting your data

When it's time to file, export everything you've logged as a single spreadsheet.

1. Open the Export tab
2. Select the tax year
3. Tap "Export CSV"

   Your device's share sheet opens — save it to Files, AirDrop it, or email it straight to your accountant.

The file is named gigtax_export_2025.csv and includes one row per transaction:

How the estimate works

GigTax's math is intentionally transparent — here's exactly what happens between your logged activity and the number on your Dashboard.

1. Net income = Income − Expenses − Mileage deduction

   Your mileage is converted to dollars first, at $0.67/mile, then subtracted alongside your logged expenses.

2. The 2025 standard deduction is applied

   $15,000 is subtracted before federal brackets are calculated, same as it would be on a real return for a single filer.

3. Federal tax is calculated using 2025 single-filer brackets
4. Self-employment tax is added separately

   15.3% on 92.35% of your net income — the Social Security and Medicare contribution a traditional employer would otherwise share with you.

Managing your subscription

GigTax Pro renews monthly through your device's app store account.

• Already subscribed on another device? Open any paywall and tap "Restore Purchases" — your Pro access unlocks immediately, no new charge.
• Want to cancel? Subscriptions are managed through your Apple ID or Google account settings, not inside GigTax — cancelling stops future renewals, and you keep Pro access until the current period ends.
• Refunds follow the standard App Store / Google Play refund policy for your region.

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