[OpenSpending] Daily Bread

Tue Mar 20 14:39:57 UTC 2012

BTW, I also note we produced this visualization last year:

<http://okfnlabs.org/openspendingjs/app/tax-calculator/>

This focuses on the type of taxes you pay rather than where it
ultimately goes ...

Rufus

On 20 March 2012 11:31, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 20 March 2012 11:24, Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Just a quick question that will hopefully get a quick answer.
>> How was the tax calculated for Daily Bread in the end?
>>
>> http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dailybread.html
>>
>> Was it total salary split into the proportions of public spending given in
>> PESA? Or were other factors considered?
>
> We used the national statistics data for this. For the gory details
> see this code:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/openspending/blob/master/openspending/lib/calculator.py
>
> Some of the specific data may be in these two datasets on the DataHub
> (which I think you created :-) ):
>
> <http://thedatahub.org/dataset/hmrc-national-statistics-tax-receipts-taxpayers>
> <http://thedatahub.org/dataset/hmrc-national-statistics-income-tax-and-personal-incomes>
>
> It might be worth creating a new dataset just for this specific
> dataset so we have a clear long-term reference for this info.
>
> Rufus
>
>> I want to make reference and describe it briefly.
>>
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