UBI Calculator

How much universal basic income could 2025’s US tax code fund? Drag the sliders to set tax rates and watch the revenue — and the monthly check — update in real time.

Set the rates

UBI funding potential

$614

per adult / month

The numbers

Annual funding pool —

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Static scoring: assumes people & corporations do not change behavior. Income pools for the top 1% / 0.1% exclude realized capital gains so the capital-gains slider doesn’t double-count. All figures are rounded estimates.

Bases, assumptions & sources

Revenue source	Rate	2025 tax base	Revenue	Primary source / method

Methodology: revenue = rate × base for each source (static scoring, no behavioral response). The corporate base ($3.1 T) is CBO’s implied effective taxable-profits base for FY2025 (≈$650B receipts at the 21% rate), smaller than BEA’s ~$3.5 T domestic pre-tax profits because of credits and deductions. Top-1% / 0.1% bases are that group’s income above its cutoff, scaled from IRS SOI Tax Year 2023 to 2025 and stripped of realized capital gains to avoid double-counting with the capital-gains slider. The wealth-tax base ($50 T) is US household net worth above a ~$50M exemption — the top ~0.1% of households — per the Fed’s Z.1/SCF. UBI denominator: 269M US adults 18+ (Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates).