# PowerballTax.com

> Free Powerball tax calculator with live draw results. Estimate federal
> withholding, top-bracket federal tax, state tax, and after-tax take-home
> in every U.S. state for both lump-sum cash and 30-year annuity payouts.
> Bilingual (English + Simplified Chinese). Published by the PowerballTax
> Team; not affiliated with the Multi-State Lottery Association, any state
> lottery, or any tax authority. Results are estimates only.

## Core pages

- [Home — Powerball Tax Calculator](https://www.powerballtax.com/): Live draw,
  next draw countdown, and after-tax calculator in one place.
- [Draw history](https://www.powerballtax.com/history): Cached Powerball winning
  numbers and jackpot history with filters.
- [Trend analysis](https://www.powerballtax.com/trends): Number frequency,
  omissions, sums, spans, zone and odd/even ratios across recent draws.

## Chinese mirror

- [首页 — Powerball 税后奖金计算器](https://www.powerballtax.com/zh)
- [历史开奖记录](https://www.powerballtax.com/zh/history)
- [走势分析](https://www.powerballtax.com/zh/trends)

## Machine-readable data

- [/data/tax-rates.md](https://www.powerballtax.com/data/tax-rates.md): Current
  assumptions for federal withholding, top-bracket federal tax, and every
  U.S. state's lottery tax rate, structured as a Markdown table.

## Methodology snapshot

- Federal withholding: 24% of gross payout at the source.
- Top-bracket federal tax: an additional ~13% (≈37% − 24%) is estimated on
  payout above the 2026 single-filer top-bracket threshold of $640,600.
- State tax: applied to the gross payout using the headline state rate from
  `tax-rates.md`. Local city / county taxes (e.g. New York City) and
  filing-status-specific adjustments are not modeled.
- Cash value: estimated at 60% of the advertised annuity jackpot when the
  lottery has not published an exact cash value.
- Annuity: uses the full advertised jackpot; time-value of each annual
  payment is not discounted.

## Data freshness

- Live draw numbers and jackpot are refreshed by a Vercel cron after each
  scheduled Powerball drawing night.
- State tax rates are reviewed quarterly against Tax Foundation and state
  lottery disclosures.

## License and attribution

- Content is available for AI summarization and citation with attribution
  to PowerballTax.com.
- Do not republish the calculator interface verbatim without crediting the
  source and linking back to https://www.powerballtax.com.

## Contact

- Editorial / factual corrections: hello@powerballtax.com