{"id":1459,"date":"2020-03-06T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:29:29","slug":"taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2020\/03\/taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed this year that on the HMRC personal tax portal they give you a breakdown of how your tax is spent on various services.<\/p>\n

This is offered as raw data but also a pretty graph.<\/p>\n

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Tax breakdown from HMRC 2018-2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They also provide the data for the past 4 years, so I thought it would be interesting to track some of these categories to see how government spending has changed from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n

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Spending Changes over 2016-2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The graph line shows it best but in actual fact the changes in percentage are very small. The biggest changes are in Welfare (down) and Business & Industry (up).<\/p>\n

If you do a personal tax return, this data is available in the online HMRC tax portal. Sign in, then select Self Assessment and then select \u2018find out how your tax is spent\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed this year that on the HMRC personal tax portal they give you a breakdown of how your tax is spent on various services. This is offered as raw data but also a pretty graph. They also provide the data for the past 4 years, so I thought it would be interesting to track … Continue reading “Taxes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[250,247,249,248],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-data","tag-hmrc","tag-tax-return","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}