IrishPayCalc publishes what it got wrong. Every change to a figure, to the source a figure was attributed to, or to a way of showing a number that could be misread, is listed here with its date.
8 corrections are listed, going back to August 27, 2026. 4 of them changed a number or its attribution. Most were found in this site's own review before any reader saw them, and they are listed for the same reason as the rest: a log that recorded only reader complaints would measure how many people complained, not how much was wrong.
If you believe something here is still wrong, send it with its source via the Contact page. Factual corrections are one of the categories that inbox answers.
If you wrote to [email protected] before 12 September 2026, it did not reach anyone. The address was printed on this site from the day it went live, but the forwarding rule behind it was never created, so the mail server refused every message sent to it between 26 August and 12 September 2026. Anyone who wrote would have had a delivery failure notice back from their own mail provider. Nothing was received here and no copy of any message was kept, so a resend is the only way that post can arrive. The address was tested by sending real mail through it on 12 September 2026 and it now works. This was this site's own fault, not a reader's, and it is disclosed here for the same reason the log above exists.
What was wrong: The results section was headed at the wrong level, so a screen-reader user navigating by headings would not find the answer in the list. Embedded versions of the calculators had no page heading at all.
What it says now: Heading levels corrected across the site, with an automated check that fails the build if they drift again.
What was wrong: Length of service was worked out in whole years from the anniversary date, which loses a day every leap year. The official worked example counts the calendar days from start to finish inclusive — 8,435 days over 365 gives 23.11 years, where the anniversary method gave 23.09.
What it says now: Service is counted in real days, and both official worked examples are now driven by their actual dates rather than by a year count.
What was wrong: For a married couple both earning, the transfer of the standard rate band between spouses was applied incorrectly. A couple on €40,000 and €45,000 was shown about €1,000 a year more tax than they owe.
What it says now: Corrected, and the result now reproduces the Citizens Information worked example exactly. That example is held as a test so the same error cannot return unnoticed.
What was wrong: The figure for how much more a carer could earn before the payment is affected was shown as €15.20. It should have been €1,315.20.
What it says now: Corrected against the means-assessment rules in the published guidance.
What was wrong: The calculator asked whether the employee worked at least 18 hours a week, and excluded those below it. That exclusion has been restricted since 20 December 2001 by section 8 of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001.
What it says now: The question was removed, the change is explained on the page with its source, and the test cases were rewritten to match the law as it now stands.
What was wrong: The state payment was described as a take-home figure, as though tax had already been taken off it.
What it says now: The page states what the payment is before tax, and what that means for a reader also receiving pay from an employer.
What was wrong: The page did not say who actually pays the statutory lump sum.
What it says now: It now states that the employer pays it, and that where an employer cannot, it is paid from the state Social Insurance Fund.
What was wrong: The page described the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 as taking effect for the 2026 tax year, which is not what an Act from 1973 does.
What it says now: The page distinguishes the year the law was made from the year a rate applies.