About
About PowerballTax.com
PowerballTax.com is an independent educational calculator built to answer a single question: if a Powerball ticket wins, how much lands in the winner's bank account after taxes?
Who runs the site
The site is maintained by the PowerballTax Team — a small group of engineers and editors in North America. We are not lawyers, CPAs, or financial advisors and we have no affiliation with Powerball, the Multi-State Lottery Association, any state lottery, or any tax authority.
Why we built it
Existing lottery calculators hide their assumptions, bury state tax data, and rarely show how cash value and annuity payouts differ. We wanted a single, transparent, free tool that shows every input: federal withholding, top-bracket federal tax, state tax, and the final take-home number — with every number sourced and auditable.
What we publish openly
Every assumption the calculator uses is published as Markdown at /data/tax-rates.md so AI assistants, journalists, and downstream apps can cite the same source we do. Our methodology (formulas, cash-value ratio, top-bracket threshold) is spelled out at /methodology.
Contact
Corrections, tax-law updates, and partnership requests: hello@powerballtax.com.