[wdmmg-discuss] Request for scraping and keeping in closer contact

[Rufus Pollock]

On 27 May 2010 17:40, Donovan Hide <donovanhide at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rufus,
>
> this scraper has united the income tax rates from these two spreadsheets:
>
> http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_structure/incometaxrates_1974to1990.xls
>
> http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_structure/table-a2a.xls

Great work. For others (just cc'd this to wdmmg-discuss), scraped data is here:

<http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/show/income-tax-rates/>

> and should be useful for visualisations. Have also done some analysis
> of the income tax personal and married allowances and come to the
> conclusion that the data is almost useless without all the explanatory
> notes. It seems that no useful function would be served by flattening
> the data into a key value store, although I could be wrong, if you had
> a particular plan for that time series.

That sounds probable. My guess is also that taking those allowances is
very second-order ....

> Perhaps just scraping the personal allowance and ignoring the married
> couple's allowance would be useful? They are two different things
> completely, but both depend on the same age criteria.

I think think we can hold off on this just for the moment -- there may
be more important things from a tax calculator perspective to work
out. BTW current code is here:

<http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/wdmmg/file/50b937c079cc/wdmmg/wdmmg/lib/calculator.py>

@Alistair: do you have any view on this?

Rufus

> Let me know your thoughts!
>
> Cheers,
> Donny.
>
>
> On 27 May 2010 17:16, aidan mcguire <aidan at scraperwiki.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 May 2010, at 15:05, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Can you guys do some scraping of datasets out of your 4IP allocated
>>> work:
>>>
>>> Top 3 from here would be very useful:
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://www.ckan.net/package/hmrc-national-statistics-income-tax-and-personal-incomes>
>>
>> Rufus,
>>
>> One done - more in the pipeline. Not sure this is how you want it.
>>
>> http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/show/income-tax-rates/
>>
>> Aidan
>>
>>
>



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