[openspending-dev] Welcome to the "openspending-dev" mailing list

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Dear Mark,

Nick (CC) is our expert on this and most likely to give you the
answers you need - maybe he can call you. If you're in for a little
nerdery, however, you may want to have a look at the underlying data
which may help to clarify things already:
https://github.com/openspending/taxman/blob/master/tax/gb/data.coffee

Best,

 - Friedrich

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Mark Jaeckel <jaeckel_m at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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 These estimates are sadly a bit out of date (they're based on the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
>> From: openspending-dev-request at lists.okfn.org
>> To: jaeckel_m at hotmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:16:31 +0100
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