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Create an interactive website showing roughly where your UK taxes go

People pay thousands in tax a year with no clear picture of what it pays for. Enter your income, see your money split across health, education, defence, debt interest and the rest.

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A solution must include

  1. Publicly accessible at a URL, free to use
  2. Users enter a salary and see their estimated income tax and National Insurance
  3. Breaks that amount down across public spending areas
  4. Uses official UK public spending data, with every source linked
  5. Shows which tax year the figures are for
  6. Works on a phone as well as a computer

How it’s verified: Live URL; A list of data sources and a worked example for a £35,000 salary.

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