I assume “Other purposes” is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies 😬
I wish we had this in Canada.
I wish we had it in New Zealand too. I get tired of people’s hallucinations about tax.
W government. We need this level of transparency from all governments.
You pay 20 000 $ of taxes!!!
Yes, from a salary of about 90k. However this is federal tax. We dont pay individual state taxes as well. Our sales tax is built into the price of goods. Our healthcare is also completely free.
I love that it helps you see how little of the welfare payments are going to the unemployed, since that’s the part that concerns people the most.
Uk government tried this a few yrs ago trying to spin the welfare part as work shy bambots then it came out that the lions share was pension pots that took up most of it with the teachers pensions being the one the media focused on
The US has a similar breakdown by % as this Australian one, except that what’s called “welfare” in Australia is called “entitlements” in the US and makes up about 50% of the budget. Welfare in terms of the dole aka money given to “work shy bambots” makes up only about half of one percent.
Indeed, especially since I am quite unconcerned about the Aged. They had their chance!
That’s a newer addition, when it first came out under a conservative Goverment, all welfare was grouped together.
Classic Conservative tactic.
“Evil, stupid, greedy-” stuffs pockets “-jobless, welfare scroungers!” stuffs pockets “Pensioners, vote for me to bring down our welfare spending!”
Based.
Transparency
lol this isn’t actually true, I know because I live in aus and I have never seen anything like this
One thing to note about this breakdown is that it wasn’t legislated with good intention but it was implemented in a very malicious compliance way that completely counteracted the original intention.
This receipt was legislated by the conservative party in Australia under Tony Abbott, the surface level intention was to “show where people’s tax dollars are spent”. However the underlying intention was to show welfare spending as a huge category that totally eclipsed all other spending in order to demonize welfare, particularly unemployment welfare. In order to build public support for rolling back that spending.
However when the letter was implemented, the welfare category was further broken down as you see here, completely working against the narrative that the government at the time was trying to spin (that unemployment welfare particularly was a huge drain on society).
Well, are they lying? It’s just true that welfare costs a lot of money (the “aged” category takes like half of my country’s taxes)
Yes, they were lying. We are not talking about the aged pension here.
Still, in the long term it just improved the government’s transparency
Instead it shows that boomers are the real drain on society
Nice
Makes sense. I was already worried as soon as I saw “welfare” being bigger than “health”.
Mannnn… I wish we had this in the U.S. Unfortunately it would ruin a lot of the propaganda forced down our throats, disabling some talking points for our dumbass politicians.
They’d never give us something so comprehensive.
You can go here and get something pretty close to OP’s posting.
That’s the only good thing i guess. I heard that the law is against ppl and they can treat humans like cattle as long as its for your safety (lets set covid as an example). What a shitty place to live.
You have no clue how harshly we treat cattle eh snowflake?
That is very interesting.
We get this in the UK too 👍.
do we?? i don’t think i’ve ever had one of these. do you have to apply for one or can you access it online?
I’ve seen it on the council tax statement but not otherwise.
You will get one with your council tax bill that will cover your local constituency. But I’ve never seen one for my tax as a whole.
Fun fact: in the United States you can request this same sort of receipt. It’s slightly different, but all you have to do is request it, and they can show you exactly how many brown people they shot, or godless communists they’ve brought democracy to with your taxes!
In the US they’d have to print it Landscape in order to have room for the Military bar.
On one of those long ass printer papers with the tear off edges from the 80s.
Where is the 1 trillion on defense? /s
Australia hiding their full power so the emu’s do not win again.
Everyone focuses on the emus. The kangaroos are the real threat because they’ve got pouches to hide their AR-15s illegally smuggled in from America.
I think something like this would make U.S. citizens feel better about taxes in general, since it can sometimes feel like you’re throwing a large portion of your hard-earned money away.
The data to create this is essentially public with budget bills right? It would just take building a percentage tree and categorizing them appropriately. I might look into how complex this would be to build.
its basically just proportioning out the nations budget against the amount of tax paid,assuming you had access to how much was spent where by category, it would be a peice of piss to make
Luckily they even do the categorization and calculate percentages for you!
I had no idea this existed; thanks for the share!
true but seeing how much goes to welfare might make republicans hit the roof. Everyones got that uncle that hates the poors.
Most in Australia don’t read where the money goes. Taxes aren’t too bad (IMO) and the system is so easy that once you submit you don’t really go back to see where it went. Or maybe I live in a bubble.
Mind you the largest chunk of that is the elderly with the unemployed being one of the smallest ones. I’m very much in favour of both by the way.
If you think your taxes are too high then it’s not because too much is going to welfare; it’s because too much is going to tax breaks (which won’t show up on a chart like this) for fossil fuel companies and the wealthy.
