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

Alistair Turnbull apt1002 at goose.minworks.co.uk
Fri May 28 10:13:10 UTC 2010


On Thu, 27 May 2010, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> 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.

> @Alistair: do you have any view on this?

I agree with you both: hold off on this.

 	Alistair




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