Taxes

Taxes sits below your operating result as its own section. It captures tax payments so your projected cash balance reflects what actually leaves the account.

What lands here

What to watch out for

Taxes is the line most likely to break a cash forecast, because payments are periodic and large while the trailing 30-day average is smooth and small. A quiet window projects a near-zero tax cost straight through the month a VAT or corporation tax settlement is actually due — which is exactly the kind of gap that turns a healthy-looking forecast into an overdraft. Enter known settlements on their due dates.

Planning this line properly is what Calculating runway is for.

How it's forecast

With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Taxes is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.

daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in month

For Taxes, €5,000 booked over the last 30 days gives €5,000 ÷ 30 ≈ €167/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €5,000. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.

Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.

Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.