Thursday, December 30, 2010

An application to know the fate of taxes

 The state has 238,000 million euro budget (excluding Social Security) 2011. Although the figures are public and are on the website of the Ministry of Economy, it is difficult for a citizen to know how money is spent watching a tangle of raw data. The application Where do my taxes? (Http://dondevanmisimpuestos.

S) is solved graphically and easily, while the ability to compare the figures of the last term, including transfers to autonomous regions and municipalities. For example, 74,000 million in 2011, the budget allocated to debt. Previous year: 58,000 million in 2008, 51,000 million. The increase in four years is 45%.


The increased spending on unemployment and the reduction in infrastructure for 2011 are variations observed with the naked eye. Assistance to unemployed cost the state coffers 15,800 million in 2008. Next year will be double: 30,500 million. But if they pulled the car infrastructure of the economy in the last two years, the next will not be the sector that carries most of the game of economic affairs, including research spending unchanged, development and innovation about 7,000 million.

David Cape, computer 34, is the author of the application, Pro Bono Public initiative, which promotes the opening of the data in Spain and organized the Abredatos Challenge contest, which prepared the new edition in April. In the first 38 applications were created in two days. In spare time for two months, Cape drew the figures, broken down by item, ministries and agencies, in PDF and HTML to get the "graphic display of money." Where are my taxes? Is the Spanish version of Where does British my money go?, of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

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