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TENNESSEE · 2026
Tennessee paycheck, no state income tax.
Tennessee does not tax wages. The old Hall tax on interest and dividends is not a wage tax. Federal tax and FICA still apply in Nashville or Memphis.
What is different about Tennessee
Tennessee does not tax wages. The Hall tax was a tax on certain interest and dividends, and it is not a reason to add a percentage to a salary. A Nashville or Memphis paycheck is federal income tax, Social Security, and Medicare. Local sales tax is paid at the register, not by the payroll department.
A single filer on $70,000
Standard deduction $16,100, no 401(k), no state tax. Federal income tax is about $6,570. Social Security is $4,340. Medicare is $1,015. Net is about $58,075 before health insurance, HSA, or any other deduction. The form above starts on this wage so you can change filing status without redoing the arithmetic.
The nine states with no wage tax are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. They are not the same place. They are the same payroll math. The comparison page lists them together.
Questions
Does Tennessee tax wages in 2026?
No. Tennessee is one of the states with no wage income tax. Federal income tax and FICA still apply.
Is property tax in this paycheck?
No. Property tax is a housing bill. It is not withheld from wages.
Reading the Tennessee result
The old Hall tax was a tax on some interest and dividends. It is not a reason to add a percentage to a Nashville or Memphis salary. Sales tax is paid at the register. The paycheck is federal income tax plus FICA.
On the wage this page opens with, $70,000, a single filer with no 401(k) owes about $6,570 in federal income tax after the $16,100 standard deduction. Social Security is $4,340 and Medicare is $1,015. The state line is $0. Federal tax and FICA are the whole withholding story on this page. A rough net is $58,075 before health premiums. Biweekly, that net is about $2,234.
Use the main calculator when the wage is not the one printed here
This page fixes the state setting so the common mistake, typing a guessed rate, is harder. The brackets, the wage base, and the 401(k) treatment are the same engine as the US paycheck calculator. Change filing status on the form rather than multiplying the single result by two. Married filing jointly has its own standard deduction and its own brackets. A second job is not modeled. Local tax is not modeled except where the paragraph above tells you to add a county or city rate yourself.
Related pages: 2026 federal brackets, Social Security wage base, the nine states with no wage tax.