Topic 02 · Financial year 2024/25
Where the UK's £64.5bn a month comes from
Collected
£64.5bn
£774bn a year
Spent
£77.3bn
every month
Borrowed to fill the gap
£12.8bn
≈36% of GDP
Data sourcesHMRC — Tax receipts and National Insurance contributionsHMRC APIs (api.gov.uk)ONS — Public sector finances, UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)
Total receipts£64.5bnhover a segment
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
The five biggest taxes
Data sourcesHMRC — Tax receipts and National Insurance contributionsHMRC APIs (api.gov.uk)exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
- Income Tax£23.3bn
- National Insurance£14bn
- VAT£14bn
- Corporation Tax£7.3bn
- Fuel Duty£2.1bn
What you contribute
Data sourcesONS — Population estimates for the UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)ONS — Families and households in the UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)Per household
£2,150
30.0 million households
Per person
£947
68.1 million
Per adult
£1,181
54.6 million adults (18+)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
Receipts of £64.5bn against £77.3bn of spending — see where it is spent.
Source link check
All source links for UK tax receipts live on one page, where you can re-check every publisher and api.gov.uk catalogue link in a single click.
Live receipts data from the sources
Fetching the latest ONS public sector finances…
Fetched from the ONS Statistics API (api.beta.ons.gov.uk), listed in the UK Government API Catalogue, covering the Public Sector Finances (PUSF) monthly release. Hover a tile for the series definition, click through for the raw series.