The pie charts below show the sources for UK tax revenue for last year and the total UK government spending for last year.

The pie charts give data on different types of UK

tax

revenue and the total UK government spending

last

year. Units are measured in percentages.

Overall

, what stands out from the graphs is that the main revenue source was

income

tax

,

while

the largest amount of

income

was spent on pensions. Another interesting detail is that the government allocated the least amount of

money

on transportation

last

year. Looking into details, regarding the

tax

income

,

income

tax

ranked first with 28%,which is followed by national insurance (21%). The percentage of

money

gained from value-added

tax

was 17%,

while

the figure for corporation

tax

was 8%. The remaining

income

sources were at just above a quarter,

total

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. In terms of government spending, the largest amount of

money

was spent on pensions at one in five,

while

Welfare ranked second with 17%. The percentage of

money

invested in Education was 14% which was twice as much as that in other spending and defence. The remaining industries were at just below one in five,

total

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