Your tax so far ₹0

How much is your ADHD costing you?

Late fees. Lost AirPods. Food delivered because cooking felt impossible. Fifteen questions, two minutes, one number you've been trying not to look at.

  • Move each slider to your honest guess. No login. No email.
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  • Running total appears at the top once you start. Currency switch is in the same bar.

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Your 2026 ADHD Tax

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Where it goes

The bigger picture

Your number is the part you can see.

Late fees and lost chargers are the visible slice. Research that also counts lost income and productivity puts the full cost of adult ADHD near $14,092 per person, per year. Adults with ADHD earn 20 to 40% less than peers, and default on loans at six times the rate. What you calculated above is real, and it is still an undercount.

Doshi et al. 2022, Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy. Biederman and Faraone 2006. Beauchaine et al. 2020, Science Advances. Sources linked below.

30-year projection

If nothing changes, this costs you ₹0 over 30 years.

Invested at 8% instead, that is ₹0 of compounded wealth you will not see.

What actually moves the needle

Before you do anything else. Most of your tax is fixable for free. This is the order that matters.

  1. Put every recurring bill on autopay. Today.

    Late fees are the easiest category to delete, because the fix needs zero memory. Autopay rent, cards, utilities, insurance. It is the highest-leverage 20 minutes you will spend this year.

  2. Book one yearly subscription audit.

    Set a single recurring calendar event, once a year. Open your bank statement, read every line, cancel what you forgot you were paying for. Most people find two or three dead subscriptions. You will probably find more.

  3. Add a 24-hour gap to non-essential buys.

    Impulse spending is a speed problem, not a willpower problem. Put the thing in the cart and leave it a day. The urge usually passes. What you still want tomorrow, you buy without the guilt.

Where REWIRED fits: the three moves above reduce money lost on autopilot, but they do not touch the deeper pattern. The reason an ADHD brain keeps leaking money and time is a set of executive-function systems that have never been built. That is what the REWIRED programme builds, with professional guidance and a cohort that holds you accountable after the room empties.

The fix

This is exactly what REWIRED is built for.

REWIRED is India's first structured ADHD programme for adults. Three days in person, then 90 days of guided follow-through, in a small cohort, led by psychologists. You don't just read the frameworks. You build your own version of each one, with people who keep you accountable after the room empties.

Take the 2-minute Discovery Quiz → See how the programme works →

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Where the numbers come from

Your total is built only from what you enter. Each amount is annualized (weekly figures times 52, monthly times 12), summed, then projected at an 8% annual return for the 30-year figure. There is no survey behind your number and no percentile, because honest percentile data on personal ADHD spending does not exist. What does exist is peer-reviewed research on the financial cost of ADHD. That research is why measuring this is worth two minutes.

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