Total tax paid
£7,856
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £3,751 to pay you £24,923. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £3.15 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 16.5% tax rate now rises to 27.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 10.9% higher than what it seemed at first.