Find out how much national income tax you might pay, where governments spend money, and what your personal proportional share could look like. Real public spending. A little attitude.
National income tax only. Provincial/state income taxes, payroll deductions, tax filing adjustments and personal circumstances are excluded. Scottish employment income uses Scottish rates. The amounts below illustrate a proportional share of government expenditure; no individual tax payment is literally traced.
Your estimated deductions
Annual salary
National income tax
Effective national rate
After national income tax
Your share of public spending
Reported public expenditure categories, multiplied by your estimated national income tax divided by a published expenditure denominator. Fiscal years and coverage differ across countries. These are proportional illustrations, not literal payments.
🤯 Wait… My Taxes Paid for WHAT?!
Unusual documented awards and programmes from the last ten years (2016–2026). The personal share compares a historical record with your CURRENT estimated annual tax; it is not a claim that you literally paid for that past project. Grant award amounts are not the same as money disbursed.
🔎 Source not yet verified — research leads
Disclaimer: These are suggested topics with source not yet verified for an exact spending claim. Where available, links point to relevant original publications or project records. A related source does not establish that a particular amount was spent. Topics without a traceable source are labelled accordingly. No dollar amount, recipient, year, or personal tax share is claimed. We will update or remove topics as records are checked.
My taxes went where?!
Select a category below to see a real reported government amount, your proportional estimate, and the underlying source. Some country-specific quirky projects still need record-level verification.
🐇 The Taxpayer's Rabbit Hole
Real spending figures first, jokes second. The large amount on each verified card is your estimated proportional contribution, not the government's total.
More unusual topics to investigate
Detailed official expenditure records now cover Canada, the US and the UK. Personal shares use proportional estimates, not literal tax tracing; US obligations are not actual cash outlays. Tiny amounts retain extra precision.
🏢 Which companies got my money?
Recipient-level drilldowns will show a personalized share only when the named grant, contract or disbursement has a verified amount, fiscal year and compatible spending denominator. A contract is not automatically a subsidy.
Recipient-level records awaiting verification. No fictional company amounts displayed.
🌍 Foreign assistance by recipient country
Historical assistance, obligations, loans and disbursements must not be mixed. Browse verified reports; individual-country personal estimates appear only when comparable actual expenditure figures are established.
🧾 Your personalized government receipt
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Official data and methodology
Independent education and entertainment; not affiliated with a government. Tax estimates are simplified and do not replace a tax return. Roast jokes are satire, not allegations. Spending data use reported fiscal years and accounting conventions. Proportional allocation is not literal tax-dollar tracing. Figures may be revised.