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Where taxes go

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Taxes gather the revenue that governments spend. This chart shows government spending in the 2008/9 year. Education, health and social security dominated government spending.

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Source: The Treasury, Budget 2008 (last accessed 13 February, 2009)

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Paul Goldsmith, Taxes – Tax, ideology and international comparisons, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/21558/where-taxes-go (accessed 6 June 2026).

Story by Paul Goldsmith, published 27 October 2009, updated 2 September 2016.