What UK citizens get for their taxes per week
Carrying on with our series on where does your money go, lets use those figures from the post – How Much Money The Average UK Family pays in tax
That post concluded, after income tax and all the other tax such as VAT the average family pays £201.34 in tax. Bear in mind this is last years figures, now we own half the banks our public debt is a lot higher – we’ll cover that next.
But how much has been spent already? From the Guardian money wall-chart we can get a rough idea.
Of our money given in tax in 2007/2008:
- 18% to the Dept of Health
- 10.3% to Education
- 23.3% to work and pensions
- 21.3% for benefits
- 5% for debt interest – this is obviously going to be a lot higher in 2008/2009
- 6% to the Ministry of Defence
- 3% for transport policy
- 5% for Scotland
- 2.5% for Wales
- 1% for Northern Ireland
- 3.6% for Universities
- 3% for Tax Credits
- 1% to decommissioning Nuclear Waste
- 0.5% for Iraq/Afganistan Wars
- 1% to Policing
Using these figures, an average family earning £32,799 a year contributes, each week:
- £36 to the NHS
- £21 for our schools
- £47 for the OAP’s
- £43 for those on benefits
- £10 on the public debt interest
- £12 for the Army, Navy and Airforce
- £6 for the roads and rail
- £10 for Scotland
- £5 for Wales
- £2 for Northern Ireland
- £7.25 for Universities
- £6 for tax credits
- £2 storing nuclear waste
- £1 the Iraq/Afghanistan wars
- £2 for the police
This is so interesting! Northern Ireland looks like a bargain compared to Scotland. And I wouldn’t have thought that Middle East warfare was half the price of nuclear waste storage.
Well storage and disposal, but I was surprised as well how much needs to be spent handling Nuclear waste – and the war spends are the extra amounts pledged on top of normal MOD spending.
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