TaxCalcBench
Models compute complete US federal tax returns line by line from taxpayer data, with no tax engine. A return counts only when every evaluated line is exact.
Tax Year 2024 edition. The leaderboard still offers a TY 2024 view next to v2.
- Made by
- Column Tax
- Released
- July 2025
- Kind
- Finance
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Short answer
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
- GPT-5.4 Pro #19 on the capability index
- Last model added
- March 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
In the authors’ words
Can AI file your taxes? Not yet. Calculating US personal income taxes is a task that requires building an understanding of vast amounts of English text and using that knowledge to carefully compute results. We propose TaxCalcBench, a benchmark for determining models' abilities to calculate personal income tax returns given all of the necessary information. Our experiment shows that state-of-the-art models succeed in calculating less than a third of federal income tax returns even on this simplified sample set. Our analysis concludes that models consistently misuse tax tables, make errors in tax calculation, and incorrectly determine eligibility. Our findings point to the need for additional infrastructure to apply LLMs to the personal income tax calculation task.
2 models share the top score of 62.8% among models released by March 2026
Best score per model from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.
The newest model with a score here came out in March 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
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Gemini 4 Carbon - GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 15 more
- 62.8 GPT-5.4
- 62.8 GPT-5.4 Pro
- 52.9 Claude Opus 4.6
- 49.0 Gemini 3.1 Pro
- 41.7 GPT-5
- 41.2 GPT-5.2 Pro
- 37.3 Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 36.3 Gemini 3 Pro
- 36.3 Claude Opus 4.5
- 33.8 GPT-5.2
- 32.4 Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 31.4 Claude Sonnet 4.5
- 28.4 Claude Opus 4.1
- 27.4 Claude Opus 4
- 26.0 Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 23.0 Claude Sonnet 4
- 13.7 Claude Haiku 4.5
- 1 GPT-5.4 62.8%
- 2 GPT-5.4 Pro 62.8%
- 3 Claude Opus 4.6 52.9%
- 4 Gemini 3.1 Pro 49%
- 5 GPT-5 web search 41.7%
- 6 GPT-5.2 Pro 41.2%
- 7 Claude Sonnet 4.6 37.3%
- 8 Gemini 3 Pro 36.3%
- 9 Claude Opus 4.5 36.3%
- 10 GPT-5.2 33.8%
- 11 Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 32.4%
- 12 Claude Sonnet 4.5 31.4%
- 13 Claude Opus 4.1 28.4%
- 14 Claude Opus 4 27.4%
- 15 Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 26%
- 16 Claude Sonnet 4 23%
- 17 Claude Haiku 4.5 web search 13.7%
Source: Official TaxCalcBench leaderboard
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.4 | 62.8% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | GPT-5.4 Pro | 62.8% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 52.9% | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | 49% | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | GPT-5 | 41.7% | web search | Aug 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 Pro | 41.2% | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 37.3% | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro | 36.3% | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 | 36.3% | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | GPT-5.2 | 33.8% | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 11 | Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 | 32.4% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 31.4% | Sep 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | Claude Opus 4.1 | 28.4% | Aug 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | Claude Opus 4 | 27.4% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 15 | Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 | 26% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 16 | Claude Sonnet 4 | 23% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | 13.7% | web search | Oct 2025 | Official leaderboard |
4 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since its release in July 2025
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Official TaxCalcBench leaderboard
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Official TaxCalcBench leaderboard
No lab model card reports it yet
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
Versions
We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.
Source: Official leaderboards
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