Where your tax goes

About this site

This is an independent education project that explains the Hong Kong Government's budget in plain language: where the money comes from, where it goes, and what changed from last year.

Not a government website

This site has no connection with the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and does not use its emblems. It only quotes documents and data the Government has published. If anything here differs from the official documents, the official documents are right.

Privacy

  • The calculator runs in your browser. The tax or income you enter is not sent to a server and is never put in the page address. It is kept in this browser tab while you switch language, and cleared when you close the tab.
  • We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare says it uses no cookies and does not track individual visitors.
  • Cloudflare's bot protection runs a small script to tell people from automated programs, and may set a security cookie.
  • There are no ads and no other tracking; even the fonts are served by this site.
  • Like every website, the hosting service receives standard connection details (such as IP address, the page requested and the browser type) to deliver pages and prevent abuse.
  • When you follow a source link to a government document, your browser does not tell that site you came from here.

How to check us

Every number has a page marker next to it. Select it to open that page of the official document. See sources and method

Copyright and licences

  • Government documents and data are © the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, reproduced for non-commercial education with acknowledgement, as its Important Notices allow.
  • Chinese headings use Chiron Hei HK, which follows Hong Kong print forms. Latin text and figures use Schibsted Grotesk, and source tags use Fragment Mono. All three are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, subset to the characters the site needs. Chinese body text uses your device's own font. Chiron Hei HK · Schibsted Grotesk · Fragment Mono
  • Colours are based on the Monokai Pro Light scheme, checked for colour-blind separation and contrast.
  • Form and focus styles follow accessible patterns from the GOV.UK Design System.