Total tax paid
£7,973
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £3,787 to pay you £25,164. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £3.17 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.5%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 16.6% tax rate now rises to 27.5%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 10.9% higher than what it seemed at first.