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Wed Aug 1 08:22:37 UTC 2012

Hi okfn,

I have been asking Lucy for help understanding the metrics that make up the 'Daily Bread':
http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dailybread.html

I need to speak to someone over the phone urgently. Can someone please call me on 07734 699 059.

Email chain pasted below.

Looking forward to hearing from you ASAP.

Mark

> From: lucy.chambers at okfn.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:13:15 +0530
> Subject: Re: Where does my money go website
> To: jaeckel_m at hotmail.com
> CC: nick.stenning at okfn.org
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Moving the other addresses to bcc.
> 
> Did you already drop a line to the development mailing list, I haven't
> seen anything come through? (You'll need to be registered at
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending-dev to be able to
> post).
> 
> I'm currently travelling in India with a very bad internet connection
> and will be until mid August, but I hope that you would get the
> information you require from the Dev list.
> 
> Originally, the tax calculator was based on a 40% tax rate for
> everyone, but this has now got more sophisticated as it was a
> temporary fix while we migrated between two different back-end
> systems.
> 
> Information on the calculator from a recent inquiry:
> 
> The Daily Bread calculator should now give a much more realistic
> estimate of tax contributions. Note, however, that its calculations
> include not only standard income tax calculations, but also
> best-estimates for indirect taxes (VAT, fuel tax, alcohol tax, etc)
> based on your income and data from HMG's Office of National
> Statistics.
> 
> These estimates are sadly a bit out of date (they're based on the
> 2009-2010 tax year) but the ONS has yet to release more recent data.
> 
> Please note, if you have developers around, there is also a 'taxman'
> calculator which provides a JSON API to find out tax rates for
> countries around the world, and to perform the relevant calculations
> to work out what tax citizens pay (and have paid in the past).
> 
> https://github.com/openspending/taxman
> 
> Please let me know how you get on with the list and if you don't get
> an answer, drop me a line again,
> 
> Lucy

> > Hi Lucy & Okfn,
> >
> > Robert Geddis from the Citizenship Foundation was is contact with you re
> > this site and specifically this page:
> > http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dailybread.html
> >
> > He informed us he he spoke to you and that OKFN offered to pass us the
> > calculations (data) so we could use it for:
> > http://www.payingforit.org.uk/ (I work on this site for him and I'm the
> > Director of the untitled collective)
> >
> > Is there anyone who can confirm how the equations for this application work?
> > Maybe a technical director or developer?
> >
> > I'm wondering if the slider takes into account different tax brackets?
> >
> > Any of assistance ASAP would be much appreciated. 07734 699 059.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Mark Jaeckel
> > Director
> > www.untitledcollective.net

> Subject: Welcome to the "openspending-dev" mailing list
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> To: jaeckel_m at hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:16:31 +0100
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