NEW TaxPayers' Alliance analysis using official Office of National Statistics figures demonstrates how much tax families pay over their lives.

The bill, including direct and indirect taxes, is closing in on three quarters of a million pounds An average family pays more than £250,000 in Income Tax alone over a lifetime.

This new analysis shows just how heavy the burden of taxation falls on each and every family across Britain, pushing up the cost of living.

Every arm of local and central government must redouble its efforts to root out unnecessary spending and inefficiency in everything they do, so that not a penny of this extraordinary bill is wasted.

Britain's tax bill is too high – it must come down, and that means cutting out wasteful spending.

Jonathan Isaby,

TaxPayers’ Alliance chief executive.