Total tax paid
£9,826
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £4,365 to pay you £29,001. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £3.39 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
29.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 18.8% tax rate now rises to 29.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 10.6% higher than what it seemed at first.