Where do your taxes go?
You work hard, you pay your taxes so there’s funding for life’s essentials like healthcare, homes, and education. But do you also want your money underwriting war, genocide, arms deals, and crimes against humanity?
- Illegality of UK tax
What is the Consolidated Fund?
When you pay your taxes in the UK, they go directly and indirectly into the Consolidated Fund, a central pot controlled by HM Treasury. From there, funds are distributed to multiple public and private entities without your consent or even any public consultation.
Out of this central pot, billions are funnelled towards:
- Military interventions abroad
- Weapons and arms deals
- Intelligence services and surveillance
- Support for foreign regimes in breach of international law.
This isn’t speculation. It’s happening now — there’s more about the public finances process in this Office for Budget Responsibility guide.
Under international law, it’s a criminal offence to aid and abet war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity. That means if you pay tax knowing it will be used for these acts, and do nothing to stop it, you are complicit.
This is especially true under:
Taxpayer
HMRC/Local authority
Consolidated Fund
MoD / DIT / Foreign Office / Arms contracts
"Halting aid and resuming hostilities now is nothing short of a death sentence for Gaza's children. The world cannot turn a blind eye as children are thrust back into the heart of this brutal war."
Ahmad Alhendawi | Save the Children’s Regional Director
- War crimes and genocide
How they spend your money.
UK taxpayer money is actively being used to support war crimes and genocide in Gaza, through direct aid to Israel, arms licences, military collaboration, and more.
£61 billion
Overall UK defence spending in 2024 was £61 billion, the 6th highest globally (SIPRI, 2025). Meanwhile, 11.6 million people in the UK were living in relative poverty 2023-24, including 4.5 million children. (House of Commons Library briefing, 2025).
£474 million
Value of UK arms export licences to Israel since 2015, including components used in weapons deployed in Gaza. Among them are F-35 fighter jet parts, drones, ammunition, targeting systems, and small arms. (Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2024)
£127 million
Value of military equipment licences to Israel approved by Labour in 2024, exceeding the total for 2020-2023 combined approved by the previous Conservative government. (Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2024)
- There’s no opt-out...
...unless you create one.
You never voted for your taxes to fund ethnic cleansing, child starvation, or the bombing of refugee camps. But that’s exactly what’s happening.
Whether you pay tax through PAYE, annual self-assessment, Council Tax, or through your business, you’re contributing to a system that enables war crimes.
This isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong.
Under current law, there’s no way to ethically opt out of funding war through normal tax routes. That’s why we created the Taxation Trust — a powerful and lawful alternative.
Our trust is similar to the financial vehicles used by governments, corporations, and wealthy elites to control their money.
Same concept, very different motives.
