How Your Tax Payments Are Spent

[EddardStark]

[EddardStark]

Just imagine you had a choice on how it was spent. What would you want to change? There would probably be some untouchables.You can imagine pensions being one of the areas where people may be given greater flexibility. Maybe even Health.

Edited November 4, 2014 by EddardStark

[biffer]

Source? I don't think it's right - half of the total welfare bill is the state pension. That shows it as a third.

This shows pensions as bigger than the rest of welfare, for example

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget_pie_chart

Edited November 4, 2014 by biffer

[EvilScotsman]

As though income tax is the only tax.

What exactly is spending on the 'environment'? Since Nuclear Power Stations technically reduce greenhouse gases could their subsidies be counted in there?

The main point of this document is to get people looking at it and thinking "bloody workshy layabout scroungers take more of my tax than the NHS does!".

'Government Administration' might only have been £138 without this useless propaganda exercise.

[EvilScotsman]

Source? I don't think it's right - half of the total welfare bill is the state pension. That shows it as a third.

This shows pensions as bigger than the rest of welfare, for example

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget_pie_chart

It's been sent out by the government.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/03/guardian-view-chancellor-misleading-letters-taxpayers

[EvilScotsman]

Another example: Public Sector pensions are listed under 'Welfare'.

[Orraloon]

Going by those numbers it looks like that just includes Income tax and NI. Where does all the other tax go?

[Flora MaDonald]

WTF are we paying Business & Industry for?

There's a lot to be said for Monte Carlo.

[biffer]

I don't normally rely on the mirror for statistical analysis, but this explains it quite well

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/revealed-government-use-new-tax-4557912

They've basically included all civil service pensions - including their own and those of nurses and firefighters for example - as welfare rather than pensions, in order to make the welfare bill look bigger.

[biffer]

WTF are we paying Business & Industry for?

There's a lot to be said for Monte Carlo.

That includes things like UKTI activities to promote UK industry overseas, help to subsidise trade missions, and probably also things like part-funded R&D for new tech.

[Orraloon]

That includes things like UKTI activities to promote UK industry overseas, help to subsidise trade missions, and probably also things like part-funded R&D for new tech.

Do you think it includes the money in broon envelopes?

[EvilScotsman]

Do you think it includes the money in broon envelopes?

Nah that's mostly under 'Defence'.

*allegedly*

Edited November 4, 2014 by EvilScotsman

[phart]

corporate welfare trumps social welfare, you normally find.

[biffer]

We spend more on interest payments than on defence. And it's not as if we skimp on defence spending.

[perthTam]

We spend more on interest payments than on defence. And it's not as if we skimp on defence spending.

Westminster adding £100bn a year to the debt isn't going to improve that situation. We had the chance to get away from that but voted to stay with it

[Red Label]

Culture! That reminds me of a cracking Yes Prime Minister episode when Jim questions why tax payers money is used to pay for culture for the sole benefit of the "Establishment" (who could afford it themselves) and not on football, as his local football team is heading for the wall

.... Jings,... clever programme that...

[Pool Q]

It's pure propaganda, with welfare not broken down, in the hope that the hard of thinking will assume it is all spent on unemployment benefits, single mothers, asylum seekers or whatever is the scapegoat du jour.