Where Does Your Tax Get Spent?

December 15th, 2008 No Comments » | POSTED BY ROB

Following on from a previous post on how much the average family pays in tax, Where Does It Go has done some more investigation and worked out where exactly the money gets spent.

Using the average weekly tax spend, together with the tax chart recently featured on the Guardian they’ve worked out that each week the average family pays £36 of tax to the NHS, £21 for schools and £12 for the Army, Navy and RAF, amongst other things.

For the full breakdown, read the full post.





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